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Geography and development
"... Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and development, and argues that rigorous theoretical and empirical analysis is needed to increase understanding of the role of geograp ..."
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Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and development, and argues that rigorous theoretical and empirical analysis is needed to increase understanding of the role of geography in development and to better design development policy. The analytical issues are: why does economic activity cluster in centers of activity? How do new centers develop? And what are the consequences of remoteness from existing centers? Empirical evidence comes both from the international context and from studies of internal economic geography and urbanization.
Who Profits from Innovation in Global Value Chains?: a Study of the IPod and Notebook PCs’,
- Industrial and Corporate Change,
, 2010
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Global capitalism and commodity chains: looking back, going forward
- Competition and Change
, 2005
"... This paper assesses the achievements and limitations of commodity chain research as it has evolved over the last decade. The primary objectives are two-fold. First, I highlight an important but generally unacknowledged break between the original world-systems-inspired tradition of commodity chain re ..."
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This paper assesses the achievements and limitations of commodity chain research as it has evolved over the last decade. The primary objectives are two-fold. First, I highlight an important but generally unacknowledged break between the original world-systems-inspired tradition of commodity chain research and two subsequent chain approaches, the global commodity chain (GCC) and global value chain (GVC) frameworks. Second, I argue that contra the macro and holistic perspective of the world-systems approach, much of the recent chains literature, and particularly the more economistic GVC variant, is increasingly oriented in its analytical approach towards the meso level of sectoral logics and the micro level objective of industrial upgrading. I conclude that closer attention to the larger institu-tional and structural environments in which commodity chains are embedded is needed in order to more fully inform our understanding of the uneven social and developmental dynamics of contemporary capitalism at the global-local nexus.
Value chains, networks and clusters: Reframing the global automotive industry
- Journal of Economic Geography
, 2008
"... In this paper we apply global value chain (GVC) analysis to recent trends in the global automotive industry, with special attention paid to the case of North America. We use the three main elements of the GVC framework — firm-level chain governance, power, and institutions — to highlight some of the ..."
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In this paper we apply global value chain (GVC) analysis to recent trends in the global automotive industry, with special attention paid to the case of North America. We use the three main elements of the GVC framework — firm-level chain governance, power, and institutions — to highlight some of the defining characteristics of this important industry. First, national political institutions create pressure for local content, which drives production close to end markets, where it tends to be organized nationally or regionally. Second, in terms of GVC governance, rising product complexity combined with low codifiability and variable industry-level standards has driven buyer-supplier linkages toward the relational form, a governance mode that is more compatible with Japanese than American supplier relations. The outsourcing boom of the 1990s exacerbated this situation. As work shifted to the supply base, lead firms and suppliers were forced to develop relational linkages to support the exchange of complex uncodified information and tacit knowledge. Finally, the small number of hugely powerful lead firms that drive the automotive industry helps to explain why it has been so difficult to develop and set the industry-level standards that could underpin
2007 ‘Political contestation in global production networks’. Academy of Management Review, Forthcoming
"... This paper develops a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literatures on global commodity chains and global production networks (GPNs), from institutional entrepreneurship, as well as from neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The fram ..."
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This paper develops a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literatures on global commodity chains and global production networks (GPNs), from institutional entrepreneurship, as well as from neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views GPNs as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems, in which market and political power are intertwined. The framework highlights the contingent stability of GPNs as well as the potential for actors to engage politically in contestation and collaboration over system governance and the distribution of benefits. The framework offers a multidimensional and multi-level approach to understanding power relations, ideology, and value appropriation in GPNs. The framework is valuable for examining the intersection of GPNs with charged political and social issues such as sweatshops and incomes for coffee growers, and the role of geography as a source of stability and tension in these networks.
Resilient regions in an uncertain world: wishful thinking or practical reality
- Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
, 2010
"... What might a resilient region look like in the face of an uncertainty about the global economy and environment? To begin to answer this question, the article first reviews existing concepts of resilience and critically reviews dominant neoliberal concepts of regional de-velopment. This forms the bas ..."
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What might a resilient region look like in the face of an uncertainty about the global economy and environment? To begin to answer this question, the article first reviews existing concepts of resilience and critically reviews dominant neoliberal concepts of regional de-velopment. This forms the basis for seeking to specify the characteristics of resilient regions, arguing that these must have a lighter environmental footprint and involve a greater degree of regional closure in and regionalisation of economic activities. The final concluding section evaluates the limits to regional resilience in the face of global change.
Situating Regional Development in the Competitive Dynamics of Global
, 2006
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Forthcoming) “From Commodity Chains To Value Chains: Interdisciplinary Theory Building In An Age Of Globalization
- ITEC Working Paper 08-02 34
"... This chapter situates, elaborates, and further explains the theory of global value chain (GVC) governance developed by Gereffi, Humphrey and Sturgeon (2005). First, I discuss the motivations for moving beyond the “buyer-driven ” and “producer-driven” modes of global commodity chain governance develo ..."
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This chapter situates, elaborates, and further explains the theory of global value chain (GVC) governance developed by Gereffi, Humphrey and Sturgeon (2005). First, I discuss the motivations for moving beyond the “buyer-driven ” and “producer-driven” modes of global commodity chain governance developed by Gary Gereffi in the 1990s. Second, I briefly present the features of the GVC governance framework as they appear in the 2005 article, and discuss the interdisciplinary theoretical underpinnings of the framework in more detail than was possible in the original article. Third, I situate the GVC governance framework in a larger field of GVC-related theory, including but not
Transnational Corporations and Network Effects of a Local Manufacturing Cluster in Mobile Telecommunications Equipment in China
- WORLD DEVELOPMENT
, 2006
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Warped Geographies of Development: The Internet and Theories of Economic Development,” Geography Compass 2:3 (2008) 771–789
- Journal of Urban Technology Downloaded By: [Zook, Matthew] At
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"... The Internet is frequently touted as the engine of a new revolution that can eliminate poverty and bring prosperity to producers of crafts and commodities in economically impoverished areas of the world. ‘E-commerce’, ‘commodity chains’, the ‘digital divide’, and ‘disintermediation ’ are all inheren ..."
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The Internet is frequently touted as the engine of a new revolution that can eliminate poverty and bring prosperity to producers of crafts and commodities in economically impoverished areas of the world. ‘E-commerce’, ‘commodity chains’, the ‘digital divide’, and ‘disintermediation ’ are all inherently geographical ideas, as well as being integral components to many theories of economic development. However, despite a movement by geographers to recognize the nuanced relationships between the Internet and geography, such ideas have remained largely absent from much development discourse. By reviewing writing on geographical concepts such as ‘commodity chains’, the ‘digital divide’, ‘disintermediation’, and ‘e-commerce ’ within the contexts of contemporary debates about development, this article highlights some of the geographic assumptions wrapped up in a range of theories of development and shows how these spatial assumptions matter. The article concludes by reflecting on alternate geographic metaphors that could be employed within development discourse to better express the complicated and spatially contingent relationships between information and communication technologies, geography, and economic development. The Internet will have [a] profound effect on the way we work, live and learn. By enabling instantaneous and seamless communication and commerce around the globe, from almost any device imaginable, this technology will be one of the key cultural and economic forces of the early 21st century. (Gates 2000)