Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying ‘Value Capture’ from the South

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
Satyaki Roy
Keyword(s):  
Production Network ◽  
The South ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Global Production Network

Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying ‘Value Capture’ from the South

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satyaki Roy
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Relative Position ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Production Network ◽  
The South ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
Marxian Political Economy ◽  
Global Production Network ◽  
The Way

This article critically reviews the contemporary global production network (GPN) analyses from the perspective of Marxian political economy. 1 The GPN analyses focus on rents created at various nodes of the production network, and it ignores the fact that returns from interventions at specific stages in the value chain are not independent of the entire process of surplus creation and realization. Rents from innovation depend on the movement of the average capital in the particular industry and the way political economy of institutions allow certain ‘scarcities’ remain protected while others being drawn into the realm of competition. The article also argues that the GPN analyses hardly explain the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion of firms within such networks. It is argued that the dynamics is primarily governed by the relative position of individual capital and its technical composition with reference to the capital that assumes average levels of technology in that industry at a particular point of time.

A Study on Value added Trade of China and its Impact to Global Production Network

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-286
Author(s):  
jinyoung hong ◽  
yongshim chang
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Global Production Network

The Invisible Networks of Global Production: Re-Imagining the Global Value Chain in Legal Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-117
Author(s):  
Anna Beckers
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Commodity Chain ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Global Production Network

AbstractReviewing the burgeoning legal scholarship on global value chains to delineate the legal image of the global value chain and then comparing this legal image with images on global production in neighbouring social sciences research, in particular the Global Commodity Chain/Global Value Chain and the Global Production Network approach, this article reveals that legal research strongly aligns with the value chain image, but takes less account of the production-centric network image. The article then outlines a research agenda for legal research that departs from a network perspective on global production. To that end, it proposes that re-imagining the law in a world of global production networks requires a focus in legal research on the legal construction of global production and its infrastructure and a stronger contextualization of governance obligations and liability rules in the light of the issue-specific legal rules that apply to said infrastructure.

Hering, from a Global Production Network Player to a Regional Retail Leader

2016 ◽  
pp. 295-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germano Adolfo Gehrke ◽  
Hoyêdo Nunes Lins ◽  
José Alonso Borba
Keyword(s):  
Production Network ◽  
Global Production Network

Live or be left to die? Deregulated bodies and the global production network: Expendable workers of the Bangladeshi apparel industry in the time of Covid

Organization ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135050842110285
Author(s):  
Fahreen Alamgir ◽  
Fariba Alamgir ◽  
Faria Irina Alamgir
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Apparel Industry ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Development Regime ◽  
Exchange Condition ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Global Production Network

This paper draws upon the experience of mainly women workers in the Bangladeshi apparel industry to explore whether deregulated bodies are the fundamental condition of work in the global production network (GPN). We organised the study during the first waves of Covid-19. To conceptualise how ‘deregulated bodies’ have been structured into the industry as the exchange condition of work, we draw on the work of transnational feminist and Marxist scholars. The study provides insights about how a gendered GPN emerged under the neoliberal development regime; the pattern of work and work conditions are innately linked to volatile market conditions. By documenting workers’ lived experiences, the paper enhances our empirical understanding of how workers depend upon work, and how a form of expendable but regulated life linked with work has been embedded in GPN. Our findings reveal that unlike those of other human beings, workers’ bodies do not need to be regulated by norms that enable protection from Covid-19. As for the workers, work implies earning for living and survival, so ‘live or be left to die’ becomes the fundamental employment condition, and the possibility of their death an overlooked consideration. This reality has not changed or been challenged, despite the existence of compliance regimes. We further argue that as scholars, we bear a responsibility to consider how we engage in research on the implications of such organisation practices in a global environment, when all of us are experiencing the pandemic.

scholarly journals Information Application of the Regional Development: Strategic Couplings in Global Production Networks in Jiangsu, China

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 420
Author(s):  
Haiying Xu ◽  
Wei-Ling Hsu ◽  
Yee-Chaur Lee ◽  
Tian-Yow Chern ◽  
Shr-Wei Luo
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Functional Coupling ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Local Supply ◽  
Capture Trajectories

The recent literature concerning globalizing regional development has placed significant emphasis on the Global Production Network (GPN 2.0). GPN 2.0 in economic geography emphasizes that regional growth is caused by a shift in the strategic coupling mode from a low to high level. In addition, GPN 2.0 regards firm-level value capture trajectories as key analytical object, rather than the interactive relationships among scalar and divergent actors in GPN 1.0. To provide a better understanding of causal linkages between the GPNs and uneven regional development in the background of globalization and to test the applicability of GPN 2.0 analysis framework, the paper analyzed 62 Korean-invested automotive firms in Jiangsu Province, China. In order to explore the value capture trajectories of lead firms in the GPNs, the authors applied K-means clustering method to quantitatively analyze the local supply networks of lead firms from organizational and spatial dimensions. Then, comparisons were made between strategic coupling modes of GPNs and regional development in North and South Jiangsu. This study found obvious similarities within these two regions but obvious differences between them in terms of value capture trajectories. We observed that North Jiangsu is currently in the stage of “structural coupling”, whereas South Jiangsu is in the stage of “functional coupling.” Thus, this article argues that spatial settings such as regional assets and autonomy are key factors influencing uneven economic development. This research may provide a crucial reference for the regional development of Jiangsu, China.

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