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Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward
Competition and Change - Tập 9 Số 2 - Trang 153-180 - 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 research and two
subsequent chain approaches, the global commodity chain (GCC) and global value
chain ...
Financialization and housing: Between globalization and Varieties of Capitalism
Competition and Change - Tập 20 Số 2 - Trang 71-88 - 2016
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 finance as an...
The Greening of Global Value Chains: Insights from the Furniture Industry
Competition and Change - Tập 17 Số 4 - Trang 299-318 - 2013
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 firms
imple...
Environmental upgrading of apparel firms in global value chains: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Competition and Change - Tập 19 Số 4 - Trang 317-335 - 2015
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 to upgrad...
Sustainability in global production networks – Introducing the notion of extended supplier networks
Competition and Change - Tập 22 Số 3 - Trang 255-273 - 2018
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 to explo...
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