Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research

By Jennifer Bair. 2008

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Frontiers of Commodity Chain Research Table of Contents Introduction 1. Commodity Chains: Genealogy and Review Jennifer Bair Part I. Operationalizing Global Chains: Theoretical and Methodological Debates 2. Historicizing Commodity Chains: Five Hundred Years of the Global Coffee Commodity Chain Steven Topik 3. Trading Up the Commodity Chain?: The Impact of Extractive and Labor-intensive Manufacturing Trade on World-system Inequalities David Smith and Matthew Mahutga 4. Protection Networks and Commodity Chains in the Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein Part II. Getting at Governance: Power and Coordination in Global Chains 5. The Comparative Advantages of Tropical Commodity Chain Analysis John Talbot 6. From Commodity Chains to Value Chains: Interdisciplinary Theory Building in an Age of Globalization Timothy J. Sturgeon 7. Global Commodity Chains, Market Makers, and the Rise of Demand-Responsive Economies Gary Gereffi and Gary Hamilton Part III. Workers and Activists in Global Chains 8. Mimicking 'Lean' in Global Value Chains: It's the Workers Who Get Leaned on Kate Raworth and Thalia Kidder 9. Unveiling the Unveiling: Commodity Chains, Commodity Fetishism, and the 'Value' of Voluntary, Ethical Food Labels Julie Guthman 10. Chain (Re)actions: Comparing Activist Mobilization against Biotechnology in Britain and the U.S William Munro and Rachel Schurman Index

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Financialization, globalization and the making of profits by leading retailers (2012, background): “A connection with the literature on Global Commodity Chains (Bair, 2009) would appear relevant to this point, as the role of financial relationships in the structuring of asymmetric relationships along the chains has so far been an under-studied aspect.”
Global value chains in a post-Washington Consensus world (2014, background): “…development remain entrenched in many of these organizations (Neilsen, 2013), even if GVC analysis is rooted in assumptions that are highly critical of the neoliberal paradigm (see Gereffi and Korzeniewicz, 1994; Kaplinsky, 2005; Bair, 2009; Hamilton and Gereffi, 2009; Sturgeon, 2009; Lee, 2010).”
Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook (2015, methodology): “Bair (2009) argues that the GCC approach extended beyond the structural political economy of World Systems theory, so prevalent at the time (Friedmann, 1993; Goodman and Watts, 1997; McMichael, 1994), by focusing on how lead firms construct and manage international production.”
Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value (2010, background): “A more concise presentation of the current state of the art can be found in Gibbon, Bair and Ponte (2008), while the collection of essays in Bair (2009) offers a broader and more in-depth overview.”
Toward a Dynamic Theory of Global Production Networks (2015, background): “…into global value chains and global production networks has gathered significant momentum and achieved wide circulation and analytical adoption (see comprehensive reviews in Bair 2008, 2009; Hess and Yeung 2006a; Coe, Dicken, and Hess 2008a; Coe 2009, 2012; Parrilli, Nadvi, and Yeung 2013).”
A Review of Ecosystem Services, Farmer Livelihoods, and Value Chains in Shade Coffee Agroecosystems (2011, background): “The national or state scale is one of cooperative unions, social movements, nongovernmental organizations and government ministries, that along with other organizations and within legal institutional frameworks, create the web of social connections that enable and influence the journey of the coffee”
Explaining governance in global value chains: A modular theory-building effort (2014, background): “Building on earlier work by Bair (2009), this perspective calls for a return to the long-range, macro historical roots of GVC analysis, with a focus on historical change, disjunctions, fragmentations and disarticulations.”
E-Commerce and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Apparel Value Chain (2018, background): “First, a literature review summarises the dimensions of GVC analysis, the emerging features of GVCs in the e-commerce era and the impact of e-commerce on the economy.”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: A New Paradigm for a Changing World (2011, background): “GVC analysis drew attention to the role of value creation, value differentiation, and value capture in a coordinated process of production, distribution and retail (Lee, 2010; Bair, 2009; Gereffi, 2005; Gereffi and Kaplinsky, 2001).”
Bring In, Go Up, Go West, Go Out: Upgrading, Regionalisation and Delocalisation in China’s Apparel Production Networks (2014, background): “Bair (2009) has argued that in such analyses institutional context was too often added later and still remains the least developed dimension of value chain analyses.”
Governing the market in a globalizing era: Developmental states, global production networks and inter-firm dynamics in East Asia (2014, background): “…schools in the field of international political economy: the global value-chain approach (Gereffi, 1994, 1999; Schmitz, 2004; Gereffi et al., 2005; Bair, 2009; Pietrobelli and Rabellotti, 2011) and the global production networks perspective (Dicken et al., 2001; Ernst and Kim, 2002; Henderson et…”
Why the World Suddenly Cares About Global Supply Chains (2012, background): “For recent reviews of the GVC literature, see Bair (2009) and Lee (2010).”