Host economy impacts of transnational retail: the research agenda

Global Value Chains Meet Innovation Systems: Are There Learning Opportunities for Developing Countries?

“…This store format is an attempt to circumvent the threat of tightened development control in low-income provincial up-country towns where conventional large-format hypermarket development is not considered feasible politically and not viable commercially (Coe and Wrigley, 2007).…”

Geographic Variations in the Early Diffusion of Corporate Voluntary Standards: Comparing ISO 14001 and the Global Compact

“…Through outward FDI, TNCs can directly "export" standards to host economies, implementing voluntary CR standards in their foreign affiliates and subsidiaries (Bridge, 2002;Garcia-Johnson, 2000). Amongst the reasons why TNCs might choose to deploy an internationally-recognized standard throughout their geographically dispersed network of operations are: to meet local and extra-local stakeholder expectations (Angel et al, 2007;Bansal and Hunter, 2003); to create competitively-valuable "organizational legitimacy" in host economies (Coe and Wrigley, 2007), providing firms with a "social license to operate and expand"; and to save on transaction costs associated with operating different self-regulatory practices in different countries (Angel et al, 2007).…”

Retailers, supply networks and changing articulations of ethicality: lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa

“…Moreover, the increasing globalisation of retailers' supply chains within a political-economic context of neo-liberalisation, liberalisation of retail foreign direct investment, and rapidly expanding transnational retail activity (Durand and Wrigley, 2009;Neilson and Pritchard, 2007;Reardon et al 2003;Wrigley et al 2005) means that this buying power is exercised by retailers frequently through globally-stretched supply chains covering a wide range of industries and localities (Coe and Hess, 2005;Coe and Wrigley, 2007;Dolan and Humphrey, 2004;Konefal et al, 2005Konefal et al, , 2007Tokatli, 2008;Tokatli et al, 2008).…”

“…However, recently there has been acknowledgement by retailers that the implementation of these generic codes has to be more carefully managed in local contexts of supply. In response, most retailers sourcing from South Africa have pursued a strategy of setting up in-country ethical trading teams at sites of production in the global South, which mirrors the corporate retail strategy of developing buying teams and hubs in key production regions (Coe and Wrigley, 2007). Indeed, the local ethical trading managers often sit alongside these buying teams.…”