Understanding labour processes in global production networks: a case study of the football industry in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 917-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Naz ◽  
Deiter Bögenhold
Keyword(s):  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Football Industry

Asian Trade and Supply Chain Linkages

2021 ◽  
pp. 395-410
Author(s):  
Dan Ciuriak ◽  
Philip Calvert
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Medical Equipment ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
System P ◽  
The Impact

This chapter begins with an overview of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on economies of Asia generally, before turning to its impact on supply chains specifically, using the medical equipment sector as a case study to illustrate the practical complexities. It then considers the pandemic’s implications for the multilateral trade system and its impact on Asian economic integration and regionalism. The pandemic has motivated attempts to increase robustness of supply chains through diversification away from excessive dependence on China and into Southeast and South Asia, in an incremental rather than revolutionary way; no wholesale departure from manufacturing in China is anticipated. For most countries, the most efficient response is to continue to rely on international trade and global production networks, while addressing the strategic concerns through improved emergency-preparedness stockpiles. The increased pressure for reshoring, however, is part of a larger disaffection with globalization and the erosion of the rules-based international trade system.

Creating strategic couplings in global production networks: regional institutions and lead firm investment in the Humber region, UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 853-872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Dawley ◽  
Danny MacKinnon ◽  
Robert Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Regional Institutions ◽  
Political Environments ◽  
Firm Investments ◽  
Adaptive Coupling ◽  
Lead Firm

Abstract This article aims to unpack and analyse the institutional and political dynamics of strategic coupling from a host region perspective, adopting an actor-centred approach that focuses on regional institutions’ efforts to attract and embed lead firm investments within global production networks. We are particularly concerned with understanding the strategic agency and shifting coalitions of actors that create couplings and shape their evolution over time. This involves opening up the institutional underpinnings of strategic couplings by focusing more specifically on the key episodes in their creation and the organisation of the temporary coalitions that do the work of creating couplings. This approach is operationalised through a case study of the Siemens offshore wind turbine plant in the Humber region of England. In conclusion, we emphasise the need for regional institutions to develop adaptive coupling creation strategies that co-evolve with the reconfiguration of production networks and the reshaping of national institutional and political environments.

Competitiveness in a Slow Relational Production Network

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-155
Author(s):  
WenYing Claire Shih ◽  
Konstantinos Agrafiotis
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Production Network ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Core Competences

Global clothing production has given rise to fast fashion strategies adopted by the majority of fashion retailers. However, there is a production network located in London, one of the most expensive areas in the world. The Savile Row tailors using craft techniques slow by nature have never outsourced production to remain competitive. In line with the resource-based view, the relational view, and global production networks theories, the authors devise a conceptual framework as they seek to explore how competitiveness can be achieved within a slow production network. A single case study of London’s Savile Row tailoring operations is adopted. This self-reliant network has managed to acquire capabilities and specialized knowledge and transform them into core competences, thus generating competitiveness. The perennial values of this slow craft and its recent international revival secure the tailors’ longevity.

scholarly journals The Hungarian footwear industry in global production networks: the case study of Berkemann Hungary

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 188-193
Author(s):  
Ernő Molnár ◽  
István Máté Lengyel
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Large Company ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Footwear Industry

The highly internationalized, labour-intensive footwear industry showed two spectacular declines and significant restructuring in Hungary after the change of regime. In accordance with the approach the authors investigate, this phenomenon is associated with the integration ways and circumstances of the industry into global production networks. Sector-level assessment of the processes – including the changing geographical patterns of footwear industry which also indicate features of path-dependence – was performed in several previous works of the authors. On the basis of significant empirical fieldwork, recent study focuses on the current situation of an extraordinary foreign owned large company representing the challenges and development perspectives Hungarian footwear industry has to face with.

scholarly journals Capital as Subject: Global Value Chains Analysis and Labour Relations in India’s Auto Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Barnes ◽  
Krishna Shekhar Lal Das ◽  
Surendra Pratap
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Auto Industry ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Labour Relations

<strong></strong>It is widely recognised that labour has been downplayed in the literature on global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs). While several scholars have tried to bring labour ‘back in’ to GVC research, others suggest this agenda does not go far enough and fails to challenge mainstream political and economic assumptions. This paper takes its cue from claims that labour is ‘co-constitutive’ in the development of GVCs/GPNs, using a case study of India’s rapidly-growing automotive industry. It goes further in arguing for a greater focus on capitalist subjectivity in the structure and organisation of GVCs. While the growing dialogue between global labour studies and GVC scholarship has emphasised labour subjectivity, there has been a tendency to underestimate the role of capital.

scholarly journals Swiss extractivism: Switzerland's role in Zambia's copper sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregor Dobler ◽  
Rita Kesselring
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Economic Actor ◽  
Tax Regimes ◽  
Civil Society Networks

AbstractSwitzerland is usually not looked upon as a substantial economic actor in Africa. Taking Zambian copper as a case study, we show how important Swiss companies have become in the global commodities trade and the services it depends on. While big Swiss trading firms such as Glencore and Trafigura have generated increasing scholarly and public interest, a multitude of Swiss companies is involved in logistics and transport of Zambian copper. Swiss extractivism, we argue, is a model case for trends in today's global capitalism. We highlight that servicification, a crucial element of African mining regimes today, creates new and more flexible opportunities for international companies to capture value in global production networks. These opportunities partly rely on business-friendly regulation and tax regimes in Northern countries, a fact which makes companies potentially vulnerable to reputation risks and offers opportunities to civil society actors criticising their role. New and different Swiss–Zambian connections emerge from civil society networks organising around companies’ economic activities.

Analyzing industrial policy regimes within global production networks: the Ethiopian leather industry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Grumiller
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Leather Industry ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Coupling Processes

Abstract This article contributes to debates on how to broaden and deepen our understanding of the interrelationships between the state and global production networks (GPNs). It proposes that combining the GPN framework and the developmental regime perspective based on a strategic-relational conceptualization of institutions allows for better assessment of the interrelationship between the strategies of (supplier) firms and industrial policy institutions that (re)structure the dynamically changing, interrelated and multiscalar institutional underpinnings of states and GPNs, with important implications for upgrading and coupling processes. Empirically, the article presents a case study of the Ethiopian leather industry.

Rural gentrification and networks of capital accumulation—A case study of Jackson, Wyoming

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 1473-1495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter B Nelson ◽  
J Dwight Hines
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Rural Gentrification

A spatial reorganization of agriculture has been underway throughout the 20th century, and this reorganization has accelerated in the context of neoliberal trade arrangements such as NAFTA and the European Union. Global production networks now characterize today’s agricultural industry resulting in devalorized rural production spaces in specific locales. At the same time, surplus capital accumulated in contemporary global cities and regional urban centers continuously seeks out new spaces for investment in potentially profitable rent gaps. These parallel forces stimulate the re-purposing of rural industrial spaces from agricultural to residential uses in much the same way as occurred in former manufacturing neighborhoods in many urban centers. Using Jackson, Wyoming as a case study, this paper illustrates these processes through a framework based largely on theorizations of gentrification in urban contexts. In doing so, the case study brings supply side explanations of gentrification more explicitly into the United States’ rural gentrification literature and further highlights how contemporary processes of rural gentrification represent new geographies of capital accumulation. The Jackson case study further demonstrates the ways in which these flows of capital produce rural space in a relational sense by linking the local rural to the national and global through complex networks of capital investment operating at multiple scales.

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