Gereffi (2001Gereffi, G. (2001). Beyond the producer-driven/buyer-driven dichotomy: The evolution of the global value chains in the internet era. IDS Bulletin, 32(3), 30-40.) |
Presenting future scenarios |
Describing how the internet will provide several organizational changes within the governance of production networks. |
Explaining how power shifts with innovations in networks with fewer boundaries between geographical distances. |
Upgrading can be better defined and implemented through the study of its central actor: governance. |
Spokesperson: IDS Bulletin at the Institute of Development Studies of Sussex University |
Humphrey and Schmitz (2001Humphrey, J., & Schmitz, H. (2001). Governance in Value Chains. IDS Bulletin, 32(3), 19-29.) |
Describing governance control as key for positive outcomes |
Offering a governance definition and expressing the importance of the GVC framework. |
Lead firms strategically profit from controlling the parameters set and enforcing GVC standards |
Upgrading problematization is solved with parameter setting and enforcing. |
Spokesperson: IDS Bulletin at the Institute of Development Studies of Sussex University |
Humphrey and Schmitz (2002aHumphrey, J., & Schmitz, H. (2002a). How does the insertion in global value chains affect upgrading in industrial clusters? Regional Studies, 36(9), 1-16.), |
Upgrading is accomplished by adding value to a product |
Providing a scientific framework to aid in upgrading regions and nations. |
Provides a framework with x (governance), z (parameters), and y (upgrading). |
Upgrading definition according to the value-added approach. |
Spokesperson: IDS Bulletin at the Institute of Development Studies of Sussex University |
Humphrey and Schmitz (2002bHumphrey, J., & Schmitz, H. (2002b). Developing countries firms in the world of economy: Governance and Upgrading in Global Value Chains. INEF Report, 61, 1-35.), |
Setting an agenda for research and upgrading policy |
Presenting a framework |
International trade can spur economic upgrading, working conditions, and environmental protection. |
Economic, social, and environmental standards improved by policy and research, government, and external agencies. |
Spokesperson: INEF Report at the Institute of Development and Peace |
Giulliani et al. (2005) |
Present empirical findings using the GVC framework |
Clustering and joint actions are essential for upgrading; however, knowledge can be a barrier to upgrading. |
Presenting that there is a possibility for sustainable growth within GVCs. |
Knowledge dissemination and the support of external agencies are called upon as one of the solutions for better sustainable upgrading. |
Spokesperson: World Development at Elsevier. |
Ponte and Gibbon (2005Ponte, S., & Gibbon, P. (2005). Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains. Economy and Society, 34(1), 1-31.) |
Articulation of convention theory and GVC |
Convention theory framework to explain that governance may not be defined previously. |
Convention Theory and Economy of Qualities Theory brings the consumer into the GVC framework. |
Presents a solution for GVC modeling not through the lead firms, but by quality standards drawn by consumers. |
Spokesperson: Economy and Society Journal at Taylor and Francis online |
Gereffi et al. (2005Gereffi, G., Humphrey, J., & Sturgeon, T. (2005). The governance of global value chains. Review of International Political Economy, 1(12), 70-104.) |
A framework that explains governance patterns |
Governance defined by info. Complexity, codification, and suppliers’ capabilities to cope with transactions. |
Suggests dynamic and overlapping governance. |
Defining governance with a quantitative solution that simplifies the “degree of explicit coordination and power asymmetry.” |
Spokesperson: Review of International Political Economy at Routledge |
Humphrey & Memedovic (2006Humphrey, J., & Memedovic, O. (2006). Global value chain in the agri-food sector. UNIDO Working Paper, 1-54. Vienna. Retrieved from https://www.unido.org/sites/default/files/2009-05/Global_value_chains_in_the_agrifood_sector_0.pdf
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Agriculture can help poverty reduction |
Insertion in GVCs can help small farmers to make profits. |
Suggests that the promotion of small farmer trade is attained by GVC insertion and by GVC concentrations and standards. |
Knowledge flow within the chain as one of the forms to promote upgrading for small farmers |
Spokesperson: UNIDO at the United Nations translation center. |
Nadvi (2008Nadvi, K. (2008). Global standards, global governance and the organization of global Value Chains. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3),1-21.) |
Provides a way to reconcile GVC and GPN by describing standards patterns |
Describing standards as an actor that both affects and is affected by governance. |
Standard compliance is how Developing Countries firms and farms get connected to a GVC. |
Standards and governance of lead firms are embedded and also suggest the study of intra-firm governance. |
Spokesperson: Journal of Economic Geography at Oxford Academic |
Actor-World |
Enrollment |
Interéssement |
Funnel of Interests |
Problematization |
Translation center |
Gibbon, Bair, and Ponte, S. (2008Gibbon, P., Bair, J., & Ponte, S. (2008). Governing global value chains: An introduction. Economy and Society, 37(3), 315-338.) |
Critical discussion to develop the governance concept |
Presenting controversies: value definition is missing in GVC, and network as GVC misinterprets the network. |
GVC approach uses TCE while GPN uses relational networks. |
GVC as a reliable method that fits several theories, and presenting normalizing governance as a solution for the GVC/GPN divide. |
Spokesperson: Economy and Society at Taylor and Francis |
Morrison et al. (2008Morrison, A., Pietrobelli, C., & Rabelloti, R. (2008). Global Value Chains and technological capabilities: A framework to study industrial innovation in developing countries. Oxford Development Studies, 36(1),1-27.) |
Technological capabilities affect GVC upgrading |
Presenting a view that the upgrading concept is ambiguous in GVC literature. |
Linking technical capabilities literature to explanations on how LDC firms perform. |
Upgrading within the governance of GVC is resolved by the technological capabilities building within geographical locations. |
Spokesperson: Oxford Development Studies at Taylor and Francis |
Pietrobelli and Rabellotti. (2010Pietrobelli, C., & Rabellotti, R. (November 2010). Global value chains meet innovations systems: Are there learning opportunities for developing countries? Inter-American Development Bank, 232, 1-24.) |
Defending GVC from GPN critics |
Describing the embeddedness of institutional and local firms context interacting with GVCs. |
Presenting IS as compatible with the GVC framework. |
It uses the relational network concept from geography to describe that proximity matters both geographically and relationally. |
Spokesperson: IDB Working Paper located at Inter-American Development Bank |
Lee et al. (2012Lee, J., Gereffi, G., & Beauvais, J. (2012). Global value chains and agri-food standards: Challenges and possibilities for smallholders in developing countries. PNAS, 109(31), 12326-12432.) |
Presenting GVC agri-food governance structure |
Description of challenges and opportunities for agri-food GVC upgrading. |
Questioning if a standard hinders poverty as it is set as a barrier for small producers. |
Describing that the local structural context should be accounted for in policy and research. |
Spokesperson: PNAS in Agriculture development and Nutrition Security |
Gereffi (2014Gereffi, G., Lee, J. (2014). Economic and social upgrading in global value chains and industrial clusters. Journal of Business Ethics, 133(1), 25-38.) |
Governance of global industries changes with globalization advancements |
Describing economic globalization as a byproduct of international production and trade networks. |
Describing that it may soon be a new globalization form. |
Governance of lead firms aided by the change in political EOI development as evidenced in BRICS, among others countries. |
Spokesperson: International Political Economy at Routledge |
Gereffi and Lee (2014Gereffi, G., Lee, J. (2014). Economic and social upgrading in global value chains and industrial clusters. Journal of Business Ethics, 133(1), 25-38.) |
Presenting a framework |
Describing that industrial clusters are shaped by their relationship with the international economy. |
“Synergistic governance” within the GVC framework pressures lead firms to upgrade within CSR. |
Vertical and horizontal governance, or governance within the GVC or cluster, to resolve the aimed focus on a lead-firm problem. |
Spokesperson: Journal of Business Ethics at Springer |