Upgrading Primary Production: A Global Commodity Chain Approach

Gibbon, Peter

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“…In recent years, intercorporate strategic alliances between firms, regional/local clusters of innovative activity, and intra-corporate networks of knowledge and learning have been critical to the central processes. 5 See Peter Gibbon (2000) and Gary Gereffi (1999) on global commodity chains. Global commodity chain are said to be important to the current expansion of East Asia relative to many other areas, particularly due to the importance of apparel commodity chains.…”

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Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy

O’Hara¹

2004

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Recent institutional changes have seen the increasing dominance of globalization and neoliberalism in the world economy. As markets have been deregulated, privatization and unproductive government spending have been promoted. Yet the greater volatility of capitals, the emergence of many financial crises, a decline in trust, and environmental problems have cast doubt on the effectiveness of neoliberal globalization.This book studies the impact of neoliberal globalization on growth and development in the world economy. It scrutinizes whether new social structures of accumulation or modes of regulation have emerged to promote long-term socioeconomic performance in the global economy during the early years of the twenty-first century. Special reference is given to the specific performance of neoliberal governance; transnational corporations; global institutions of money, trade, and production; international relations of war and terrorism; financial institutions; and the family-community environment.It is a comprehensive analysis of the degree to which institutional development has managed to promote socioeconomic performance in the global economy. It also presents a thorough policy program of action for long wave upswing in the world economy. It will be especially useful for those scholars and students concerned with issues of governance, global political economy, institutions, and macroeconomics.Phillip Anthony O'Hara is Professor of Global Political Economy and Governance and Director of the Global Political Economy Research Unit, at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He won the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy "2002 Gunnar Myrdal Prize" for Marx, Veblen and Contemporary Institutional Political Economy (Elgar, 2000); is the editor of Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations (Routledge, 2004) Reviews of Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy"I am delighted to endorse Phil O'Hara's new volume. Many years ago I examined his Honours dissertation at Murdoch University on Marx's theories of crisis. It was an outstanding piece of scholarship and I recognised then that a star had been born. His many contributions since show how right I was! Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy is the jewel in his crown. It contains a superb intertwining of historical, political, economic and institutional analysis of modern global capitalism, its successes and failures. It is also a critique of the claims of neoliberal analysis, and the provision of an alternative illuminating analysis; combined with detailed suggestions for the creation of institutions that will go some way towards ensuring that potential sustainable development will be achieved in a manner that helps all the world's citizens and preserves the physical environment for future generations. O'Hara has written a notable book which ought to be read by all serious economists, social scientists, concerned citizens, politicians and policy makers." Professor G.C.Harcourt, Cambridge University, UK. "In Growth...

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Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy

O’Hara¹

2004

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“…First, countries with firms in subordinate positions may develop more quickly by integrating into production networks than they would if their firms remained outside these networks even though they might gain less than the countries containing the leading firms. Indeed, while subordination might be a clear consequence of integrating into production networks, there is well documented evidence that leading firms transfer a significant amount of knowledge and technology to subordinate firms, either through direct interaction with subordinate firms, rigorous certification programmes, or indirectly through intermediate sub-assembly producers (Humphrey and Memedovic, 2003;Gereffi and Memedovic, 2003;Memedovic, 2004;Kessler, 1999;Gibbon, 2001). Thus, subordinate integration may put 'firms and economies on potentially dynamic learning curves' (Gereffi, 1999: 39).…”

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Global models of networked organization, the positional power of nations and economic development

Mahutga

2013

Review of International Political Economy

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Interdisciplinary literature on global commodity chains (GCCs)/global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs) contends that interfirm power differentials within globally networked forms of economic organization have implications for the developmental trajectories of nation-states. In this article, I advance these literatures in three ways. First, I bridge the two approaches by elaborating an exchange-theoretic conceptualization of interfirm power that is latent in the two literatures. This conceptualization focuses narrowly on the determinants of inter-firm power asymmetries and is useful for explaining why actual production networks vary in terms of the relative power of buyers and producers. Second, I develop an empirical framework to advance basic research on the link between globally networked forms of economic organization and national economic development. In particular, I derive cross-nationally and temporally comparable country-level measurements of the average bargaining power of a country's resident firms using industry-specific international exchange (trade) networks. I demonstrate the validity of these indices through a historical analysis of trade networks in the transport equipment and garment industries and by analysing crossnational variations in wages in the two industries. Finally, I conclude by charting a parallel path for GCC/GVC and GPN research that implicates global models of network organization in macro-comparative analyses of economic development.

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“…26 GCC analysis has so far focused on how business (particularly sourcing) strategies influence governance and institutional structures of commodity chains--relatively neglecting the role of regulation. Finally, the restructuring of the coffee chain suggests (in line with Gibbon, 2001a) that different typologies of ''buyers'' need to be identified within the buyerdriven category. This is because lead actors who are in different positions in the chain may apply different forms of coordination.…”

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“…Under the rubric of ''institutional framework'' Gereffi also discusses how subordinate participation in a GCC can provide indirect access to markets at lower costs than individual small-scale producers would face, and how technological information and learning-by-doing allow (the more favored) producers to move up the chain hierarchy. This suggests that participation in a GCC is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for subordinate agents to upgrade, and one which involves acceptance of terms defined by key agents as a condition for participating in the chain, especially for those aiming to progress toward higher (technology, value added) positions in the chain (Gereffi, 1999a, p. 39; see also Gibbon, 2001a;Humphrey & Schmitz, 2000;Tam & Gereffi, 1999).…”

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The `Latte Revolution'? Regulation, Markets and Consumption in the Global Coffee Chain

Ponte¹

2002

World Development

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Summary. -Coffee is a truly global commodity and a major foreign exchange earner in many developing countries. The global coffee chain has changed dramatically as a result of deregulation, new consumption patterns, and evolving corporate strategies. From a balanced contest between producing and consuming countries within the politics of international coffee agreements, power relations shifted to the advantage of transnational corporations. A relatively stable institutional environment where proportions of generated income were fairly distributed between producing and consuming countries turned into one that is more informal, unstable, and unequal. Through the lenses of global commodity chain analysis, this paper examines how these transformations affect developing countries and what policy instruments are available to address the emerging imbalances. Ó

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Upgrading Primary Production: A Global Commodity Chain Approach

Cited by 264 publications

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Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy

Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy

Global models of networked organization, the positional power of nations and economic development

The `Latte Revolution'? Regulation, Markets and Consumption in the Global Coffee Chain

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