Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development

Gereffi, Gary; Humphrey, John; Kaplinsky, Raphael; Sturgeon, Timothy J.

doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2001.mp32003001.x

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“…The GPN approach combines the insights of various similar perspectives that capture the spread of value-added creation and distribution across firm boundaries and geographical borders, such as those of global commodity chains (GCCs) and global value chains (GVCs) (e.g., Gereffi, 2005;Gereffi & Kaplinsky, 2001;Gereffi & Korzeniewicz, 1994;Gereffi, Humphrey, & Sturgeon, 2005). Despite considerable academic advances in reconciling firms' cross-borders organizational networks with spacespecific assets and institutional structures -i.e., the 'strategic coupling' process that ultimately drives contemporary regional economic development (e.g., Coe et al, 2004Coe et al, , 2008Yeung, 2009Yeung, , 2016) -still substantial gaps are left in the literature, particularly when looking for globallocal frameworks for the 'diagnosis' of local economic conditions and the design of public policies.…”

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Global Investments and Regional Development Trajectories: The Missing Links

Crescenzi

Iammarino

2016

SSRN Journal

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Global investments and regional development trajectories: the missing links. Regional Studies. Regional economic development has been long conceptualized as a non-linear, interactive and socially embedded process: these features were traditionally regarded as spatially mediated and highly localized. However, unprecedentedly fast technological change coupled with the intensification of global economic integration has spurred the need to place regional development in a truly open and interdependent framework. Despite substantial progress in the academic literature, rethinking regional development in this perspective still presents a number of challenges in terms of concepts, empirical evidence and policy approaches. Following an interdisciplinary assessment of how openness and connectivity -proxied by one of the many cross-border flows, i.e., global investments -interact with regional economic development trajectories, this paper presents a picture of the geography of foreign investments from and to the European regions and its change after the financial and economic crisis in 2008. This simple exercise sheds some initial light on how the operationalization of regional connectivity can improve one's empirical understanding of the evolution of regional economies and the policy approach needed to support their reaction to change. RÉSUMÉLes investissements mondiaux et les trajectoires de l'aménagement du territoire: les chaînons manquants. Regional Studies. Depuis longtemps le développement économique régional a été conceptualisé comme un processus interactif non-linéaire qui est bien intégré sur le plan social: par le passé ces caractéristiques-là étaient considérées très influencées par l'espace et par la localisation. Cependant, l'évolution technologique à un rythme sans précédent conjointement avec l'intensification de l'intégration économique mondiale a stimulé la nécessité de mettre l'aménagement du territoire au sein d'un cadre vraiment ouvert et interdépendant. En dépit du progrès significatif évident dans la litérature spécialisée, repenser l'aménagement du territoire de ce point de vue pose un nombre de défis en termes des notions, des preuves RESUMENTrayectorias de inversiones globales y desarrollo regional: los eslabones perdidos. Regional Studies. El desarrollo económico regional suele ser conceptualizado como un proceso no lineal, interactivo y socialmente integrado: estas características se solían considerar como espacialmente mediadas y altamente localizadas. Sin embargo, debido al rápido cambio técnico sin precedentes junto con la intensificación de la integración económica global, ha surgido la necesidad de colocar el desarrollo regional en un marco realmente abierto e interdependiente. Aunque en la bibliografía académica se han realizado grandes avances, el replanteamiento del desarrollo regional a este respecto todavía presenta una serie de retos en términos de conceptos, evidencia empírica y enfoques políticos. Tras una valoración interdisciplinaria sobre cómo la transparencia y la cone...

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Global Investments and Regional Development Trajectories: The Missing Links

Crescenzi

Iammarino

2016

SSRN Journal

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“…These evidence are contrasted by the growth of China (mostly), Russia, India, Brazil and RoW. That means the advanced economies are losing ground to emergent and smaller economies (in aggregate), which is explained by the continuous fragmentation of production chains in the last decades (Chen, 2016;De Backer & Yamano, 2012;Gereffi, 1999;Gereffi, Humphrey, Kaplinsky, & Sturgeon, 2001;Johnson & Noguera, 2012;Sturgeon, Van Biesebroeck, & Gereffi, 2008). Despite the negative perspective of the Brazilian economy, it remains in the top 10 economies.…”

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The Technology Intensity of the Final Demand for Goods and Services: a Value-Added Analysis of the Brazilian Economy

Ramos¹,

Prochnik²

2017

Blucher Engineering Proceedings

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Abstract:The fragmentation of economic activities is reshaping global trade into a network of cross-borders chains. These trends and the rapid economic growth of several developing countries, mainly from East Asia, have made it important to study the evolution of the Brazilian's insertion in the world economy. Pursuing this objective, the paper applies recently enhanced methods based on Leontief's traditional input-output analysis, adapting them to study the technology intensity of interregional flows. It emphasizes differences are being employed in imports and exports of final goods and services to households' consumption demand and to gross fixed capital formation. The results show that the final demand expenditures to households' consumption generate much more value-added in the Brazilian production of final goods and services compared to the gross fixed capital formation. Besides, it reveals a reduction of the value-added generated in Brazilian high-technology industries both for the households' consumption and for gross fixed capital formation from 2000 to 2014.Resumo: A fragmentação das atividades econômicas está transformando o comércio global em uma rede de cadeias que atravessam fronteiras. Essas tendências e o rápido crescimento econômico de vários países em desenvolvimento, principalmente do Leste Asiático, atribui importância ao estudo da evolução da inserção brasileira na economia mundial. Com este objetivo, este trabalho adota métodos recentemente aprimorados baseados na tradicional análise insumo-produto de Leontief, adaptando-os para avaliar a intensidade tecnológica de fluxos inter-regionais. São enfatizadas as diferenças empregadas nas importações e exportações de bens e serviços finais para o consumo das famílias e para a formação bruta de capital fixo. Os resultados mostram que os gastos da demanda final para o consumo das famílias geram mais valor adicionado na produção brasileira de bens e serviços finais do que os gastos com a formação bruta de capital fixo. Além disto, revelam uma redução no valor adicionado gerado nas indústrias brasileiras de alta intensidade tecnológica tanto para o consumo das famílias como para a formação bruta de capital fixo no período de 2000 a 2014.

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“…According to the fieldwork, functional upgrading (e.g., branding) and technology upgrading (e.g., information technology) are the two most discussed and practiced solutions for SCA in the current Chinese clothing industry. Functional upgrading can be defined as sequential role shifts, and these shifts follow the trajectory of export-oriented assembly (OEA), original equipment manufacturer (OEM), original design manufacturer (ODM), to original branding manufacturer (OBM) (Humphrey & Schmitz, 2001;Gereffi, Humphrey, Kaplinsky, & Sturgeon, 2001). Functional upgrading for the majority of the Chinese clothing companies is to move towards the branding stage.…”

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Measuring Sustained Competitive Advantage From Resource-based View: Survey of Chinese Clothing Industry

Cao¹,

Berkeley²,

Finlay³

2014

JSD

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The resource-based view of the firm (RBV) argues that valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable resources are the source of a firm's sustained competitive advantage (SCA); this contention has been tested in an increasing number of studies. However, the extant empirical literature emphasizes the significance of resources and capabilities (R&Cs) played and few studies focus on SCA, the other end of the RBV logic. Therefore, this study aims to address this deficiency by focusing on the measurement of SCA. Further, SCA is traditionally measured by financial performance in the empirical studies, which is not only inconsistent with the theory but also proves to be practically difficult in access to the data. However, this paper argues that process performance is more appropriate to measure SCA and this theoretical idea is examined with the survey data collected in 2011/2012 using 209 valid responses from participants in the Chinese clothing companies. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was adopted to test hypothesized relationships between the endogenous construct of process performance and three exogenous constructs measuring R&Cs. The results suggest that process performance is an appropriate and effective method measuring SCA in terms of good construct validity and of consistency with the RBV expectations.

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Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development

Cited by 582 publications

References 7 publications

Global Investments and Regional Development Trajectories: The Missing Links

Global Investments and Regional Development Trajectories: The Missing Links

The Technology Intensity of the Final Demand for Goods and Services: a Value-Added Analysis of the Brazilian Economy

Measuring Sustained Competitive Advantage From Resource-based View: Survey of Chinese Clothing Industry

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