Regulation of Global Value Chains

Regulation of Global Value Chains

Regulatory Implications and Challenges of Global Value Chains

This section provides an overview of regulatory implications and challenges of global value chains within the legal context of Global Value Chains in international economic law (Cross-Cutting Challenges).

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See Also

commodity chains, global commodity chains, global value chains, global economy, development-oriented GCC

Further Reading

  • Bair, J. (2008) Analysing Global Economic Organization: Embedded Networks and Global Chains Compared. Economy and Society 37 (3), 339–64.
  • Bair, J., and Gereffi, G. (2001) Local Clusters in Global Chains: The Causes and Consequences of Export Dynamism in Torreon’s Blue Jeans Industry. World Development 29 (11), 1885–903.
  • Barrientos, S., and Smith, S. (2007) Do Workers Benefit from Ethical Trade? Assessing Codes of Labour Practice in Global Production Systems. Third World Quarterly 28 (4), 713–29.
  • Bazan, L., and Navas-Aleman, L. (2004) The Underground Revolution in the Sinos Valley: A Comparison of Upgrading in Global and National Value Chains. In H. Schmitz (ed.) Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 110–39.
  • Clancy, M. (1998) Commodity Chains, Services and Development: Theory and Preliminary Evidence from the Tourism Industry. Review of International Political Economy 5 (1), 122–48.
  • Collins, J.L. (2003) Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Cramer, C. (1999) Can Africa Industrialize by Processing Primary Commodities? The Case of Mozambican Cashew Nuts. World Development 27 (7), 1247–66.
  • Dolan, C., and Humphrey, J. (2000) Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables: The Impact of UK Supermarkets on the African Horticulture Industry. Journal of Development Studies 37 (2), 147–76.
  • Dolan, C.S. (2004) On Farm and Packhouse: Employment at the Bottom of a Global Value Chain. Rural Sociology 69 (1), 99–126.
  • Fold, N. (2002) Lead Firms and Competition in “Bi-Polar” Commodity Chains: Grinders and Branders in the Global Cocoa–Chocolate Industry. Journal of Agrarian Change 2 (2), 228–47.
  • Gereffi, G. (1994) The Organization of Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chains: How US Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks. In G. Gereffi, and M. Korzeniewicz (eds.) Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 95–122.
  • Gereffi, G. (1996) Global Commodity Chains: New Forms of Coordination and Control among Nations and Firms in International Industries. Competition and Change 4, 427–39.
  • Gereffi, G. (2005) The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development. In N.J. Smelser, and R. Swedberg (eds.) The Handbook of Economic Sociology, 2nd edn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 160–82.
  • Gereffi, G., and Korzeniewicz, M. (1990) Commodity Chains and Footwear Exports in the Semiperiphery. In W.G. Martin (ed.) Semiperipheral States in the World-Economy. New York: Greenwood Press, pp. 45–68.
  • Gereffi, G., Korzeniewicz, M., and Korzeniewicz, R.P. (1994) Introduction: Global Commodity Chains. In G. Gereffi, and M. Korzeniewicz (eds.) Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 1–14.
  • Gereffi, G., Humphrey, J., Kaplinsky, R., and Sturgeon, T.J. (2001) Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development. IDS Bulletin 32 (3).
  • Gibbon, P. (2008) Governance, Entry Barriers, Upgrading: A Re-Interpretation of Some GVC Concepts from the Experience of African Clothing Exports. Competition and Change 12 (1), 29–48.
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  • Humphrey, J., and Schmitz, H. (2004) Chain Governance and Upgrading: Taking Stock. In H. Schmitz (ed.) Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 349–81.
  • Kaplinsky, R. (2000) Globalisation and Unequalisation: What Can Be Learned from Value Chain Analysis? Journal of Development Studies 37 (2), 117–46.
  • Kishimoto, C. (2004) Clustering and Upgrading in Global Value Chains: The Taiwan Personal Computer Industry. In H. Schmitz (ed.) Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 233–64.
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  • Palpacuer, F., Gibbon, P., and Thomsen, L. (2005) New Challenges for Developing Country Suppliers in Global Clothing Chains: A Comparative European Perspective. World Development 33 (3), 409–30.
  • Ponte, S., and Gibbon, P. (2005) Quality Standards, Conventions and the Governance of Global Value Chains. Economy and Society 34 (1), 1–31.
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  • Rabellotti, R. (2004) How Globalization Affects Italian Industrial Districts: The Case of Brenta. In H. Schmitz (ed.) Local Enterprises in the Global Economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 140–73.
  • Rammohan, K.T., and Sundaresan, R. (2003) Socially Embedding the Commodity Chain: An Exercise in Relation to Coir Yarn Spinning in Southern India. World Development 31 (5), 903–23.
  • Reardon, T., Codron, J.-M., Busch, L., Bingen, J., and Harris, C. (2001) Global Change in Agrifood Grades and Standards: Agribusiness Strategic Responses in Developing Countries. The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 2 (3–4), 421–35.
  • Rothstein, J.S. (2005) Economic Development Policymaking Down the Global Commodity Chain: Attracting an Auto Industry to Silao, Mexico. Social Forces 84 (1), 49–69.
  • Schmitz, H. (1999) Global Competition and Local Cooperation: Success and Failure in the Sinos Valley, Brazil. World Development 27 (9), 1627–50.
  • Schmitz, H., and Knorringa, P. (2000) Learning from Global Buyers. Journal of Development Studies 37 (2), 177–205.
  • Schurman, R. (2004) Fighting “Frankenfoods”: Industry Opportunity Structures and the Efficacy of the Anti-Biotech Movement in Western Europe. Social Problems 51 (2), 243–68.
  • Sturgeon, T.J. (2002) Modular Production Networks: A New American Model of Industrial Organization. Industrial and Corporate Change 11 (3), 451–96.
  • Talbot, J.M. (1997) Where Does Your Coffee Dollar Go? The Division of Income and Surplus Along the Coffee Commodity Chain. Studies in Comparative International Development 32 (1), 56.
  • Whitley, R. (1996) Business Systems and Global Commodity Chains: Competing or Complementary Forms of Economic Organisation. Competition and Change 1 (4), 411–25.

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