Using the recent emergence of Taiwan's Erlin wine region as the example, this article studies the late development of a given peripheral agrofood sector. Specifically, it proposes an analytical approach that incorporates quality perspectives and the convention theory framework for better accounting for certain quality-pursuing approaches employed by latecomers in such industries to drive their upgrading and evolution. Through examining the ways in which quality is constructed, regulated and marketed by actors in Taiwan's Erlin region, and how and why they translated specific quality conventions into a local wine system for guiding their production and marketing practices, this article broadens our understandings of the divergent development dynamics within and processes of global agrofood latecomers, especially those in the wine industry. Additionally, as opposed to existing literature's emphases on building technological capabilities for facilitating quality upgrading of agrofood industries, we further suggest that the critical quality tasks for agrofood latecomers also involve the establishment of plural product qualities. As the Erlin case shows, it is through the individual and collective efforts of local actors to explore fluid definitions of wine quality, the late development of a wine industry in a global peripheral context thus was enabled.
Newly industrializing economies (NIEs) are those regions and countries that have undergone rapid economic growth via export‐oriented industrialization since World War II. This entry discusses three different, but interrelated, approaches to explain the rise of NIEs: the liberal market approach, focusing on international trade and cross‐border investment; the developmental state approach, emphasizing the role of state interventions behind development; and the technological upgrading approach, concerned with the means by which NIEs catch up technologically.
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