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The Greening of Global Value Chains: Insights from the Furniture Industry
Competition and Change - Tập 17 Số 4 - Trang 299-318 - 2013
Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, Stefano Ponte
With increasing fragmentation of production between independent firms that are spatially dispersed and are responsible for different steps of the production process, a Global Value Chain approach is employed to examine how ‘lead firms’ shape the green features of upstream activities. Comparative case studies in the Italian furniture industry (Ikea, Valcucine) are used to show that lead fi...... hiện toàn bộ
Environmental upgrading of apparel firms in global value chains: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Competition and Change - Tập 19 Số 4 - Trang 317-335 - 2015
Amira Khattak, Christina Stringer, Maureen Benson‐Rea, Nigel Haworth
Buyer firms in the apparel industry are using environmental standards to coordinate their global value chains (GVCs). In turn, supplier firms are complying with environmental standards as a way to increase their competitiveness. This article addresses the nascent gap in the GVC literature in relation to firm- and chain-level responses to environmental concerns, which enable apparel firms ...... hiện toàn bộ
Sustainability in global production networks – Introducing the notion of extended supplier networks
Competition and Change - Tập 22 Số 3 - Trang 255-273 - 2018
Rachel Alexander
Research considering globalized production as taking place within global production networks and global value chains has potential to provide insights into the challenges of sustainable production. However, studies employing these approaches to look at manufactured products have often concentrated on connections between lead buyers and upper tier suppliers and given insufficient attention...... hiện toàn bộ
Financialization and housing: Between globalization and Varieties of Capitalism
Competition and Change - Tập 20 Số 2 - Trang 71-88 - 2016
Rodrigo Fernandez, Manuel B. Aalbers
In the literature, one finds various explanations for the rise of financialized capitalism. In the different strands of financialization literature, housing either plays a minor role or is simply seen as one of the bearers of financialization. The relations between housing and financialization are under-researched and under-theorized. This article, first, looks at the rise of housing fina...... hiện toàn bộ
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward
Competition and Change - Tập 9 Số 2 - Trang 153-180 - 2005
Jennifer Bair
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 valu...... hiện toàn bộ
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