scholarly journals Global Value Chain Governance and Power Asymmetry between Lead Firms and Suppliers: Case of Apple’s Global Value Chain and the State of Its Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Shoji Akino ◽  
Nobuhiko Yamanaka ◽  
Yawen Huang ◽  
Wataru Kikuchi
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Asymmetric Power ◽  
Resource Dependence Perspective ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate modern production systems in which coordination and control among companies have become widespread globally. In particular, the authors aim to test the Global Value Chain (GVC) governance theory empirically with a focus on the state of Apple’s GVC governance. More specifically, the authors attempt to determine whether the relationships theoretically explained in Gereffi, Humphrey and Sturgeon (2005) can be observed in Apple’s GVC and contribute toward understanding Apple’s state of coordination. This study shows the state of coordination in Apple’s GVC does not necessarily correspond to the theoretical types. Simply put, the three determinants do not reflect the state of coordination in Apple’s GVC. This paper adopts augmenting and complementary explanations from the resource-dependence perspective to elucidate Apple’s GVC governance by empirically illustrating how Apple’s GVC governance are achieved through the accompanying asymmetric power relationships between the company and its suppliers.

scholarly journals LEGAL BASIS OF INTERACTION OF BODIES AND DIVISIONS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE WITH LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT BODIES IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND ORDER

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-94
Author(s):  
Sergiy Vitvitskyi ◽  
◽  
Andriу Zakharchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mass Actions ◽  
Traffic Organization ◽  
National Police ◽  
And Control ◽  
Coordination And Control

The article analyzes the state of legislation as for provisions on the interaction of bodies and units of the National Police with local self governments in the field of public safety and order. The main directions of improving the legal basis of interaction of these bodies in this area are substantiated. One of the factors influencing the state of public safety and order in settlements is the degree of interaction of bodies and subdivisions of the National Police with local self-government bodies representing the respective territorial communities. According to the results of the study, the following areas of improvement of the legal basis for the interaction of bodies and units of the National Police with local self governments in the field of public safety and order were proposed: 1) standardization of the terms of cooperation of the specified bodies concerning maintenance of public safety and order in connection with the organization and carrying out of peaceful meetings and other mass actions; 2) consolidation of the recommended order of interaction between these bodies during the development and implementation of program documents on public safety and order; 3) determining the procedure for coordination by local self governments and the National Police in the field of coordination and control over the activities of public formations with regard of protection of public order and the state border; 4) legislative consolidation of the possibility of concluding agreements on interaction and coordination of activities by territorial police bodies and local self-government bodies; 5) determining the procedures for approval by territorial bodies (subdivisions) of the National Police of decisions of local self-government bodies on the issues of traffic organization and functioning of public transport. Separate elaboration requires regulatory regulation of relations arising in connection with the conduct of joint raids by representatives of local governments and the National Police and inspections of compliance with legislation in the field of landscaping, trade rules, etc. The search for optimal solutions to this problem should be the subject of further research.

The Gift Economy and State Power in China

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Gift Economy ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Organization Of Production ◽  
China Today ◽  
And Control

The state apparatus in China today has taken upon itself almost total responsibility for administering the social and economic domain. The welfare and control of the population, the organization of production, planning all social activities, and the distribution of the means of subsistence have become primary concerns of organs of the state. The types of power relationships and their social and symbolic expressions, which have crystallized around the distribution and circulation of desirables in such a political economy, are the subject of the present study. The study will also examine how certain counter-techniques of power deviate from the larger strategy of power exercised through the state socialist political economy, forming pockets of intransigence from within.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tak-Wing Ngo ◽  
Eva P.W. Hung
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
The State ◽  
World City ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
World City Networks

This volume offers a bottom-up view of transborder informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia and analyses their contention with the stateorchestrated One Belt One Road initiative. We argue that informal connectivity has a distinct logic and set of rules in terms of its organization, operation, and transactions. It constitutes a third way of globalization, alongside market-driven neoliberalism and state-led regionalism. The three modes of globalization differ in terms of the nature of actors, types of activities, rules of exchange, roles of the state, and major risks involved. Their clash and mesh prompt us to rethink the agency of global expansion, the nature of world city networks, and the linkage to the global value chain.

Heterogeneity in Supply Chain Management

2017 ◽  
pp. 373-379
Author(s):  
Aikaterini Kokkinou ◽  
Maria-Athina Artavani
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Internal Standard ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Efficient Level ◽  
Resource Dependence Perspective ◽  
And Control

Today's organizations struggle for efficiency and effectiveness. Strategies involving collaboration between actors and integration of activity chains are reliant of factors that firms do not have direct ownership and control over. This has implications for strategizing, setting the goals and measuring performance. Efficiency and effectiveness are often used to describe performance. From a resource dependence perspective efficiency is defined as an internal standard of performance and effectiveness as an external standard of fit to various demands. This chapter attempts through a literature survey to search the main pillars and the determinant factors for efficiency in supply chain management and to present the effects in the competitiveness and the efficient level for an economy.

scholarly journals Forming a Social Partnership between a Small Social Enterprise and a Large Corporation: A Case of the Joint Platform, H-JUMP

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaehong Park ◽  
Kumju Hwang ◽  
Sang-Joon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Large Corporation ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Asymmetric Power ◽  
Large Corporations

This study illustrates how partnerships in asymmetric power relationships, such as social enterprises and large established firms, can be made in the context of social partnership. We acknowledge that partnerships with large corporations can help social enterprises to overcome several structural barriers they may encounter in forming and sustaining their business models. However, these partnerships can be situated in asymmetric power relationships as resource dependence unfolds. Thus, paradoxically, a partnership with a large corporation can be another challenge to the social enterprise. In absorbing these constraints, we propose that a social enterprise should come up with a stylized social partnership model, utilizing their social capital when engaging in the formation of such a power-imbalanced partnership. We conducted an in-depth case study which presents how a small and young social enterprise can achieve a viable partnership with a large, established firm. Our findings show that social enterprises can form and develop long-term sustainable partnerships with large corporations using a stylized platform strategy with social capital and relational governance in the process of collective value creation.

scholarly journals A Cutting-Edge Approach to Risk Management Framework: Upswing Customs Administration

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Agung Endika Satyadini ◽  
Abdul Basir ◽  
Adi Barata
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Trade Volume ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Risk Management Framework ◽  
Customs Administration ◽  
And Control

It is worth observing that in the context of customs administration, risk management plays a crucial role in coordinating activities to direct and control risk that help customs officials for addressing the problem of limited resources, increased trade volume, and the need for prompt clearance. However, it is also worth highlighting that customs risk management framework needs to be dynamically improved to meet the changes in global value chain. This study analyzed the successful experiences in area of risk management, as well as important international documents, recommended by World Customs Organization and proposed a cutting-edge approach of customs risk management framework, in accordance with the importance of risk management in the process of trade facilitation and customs procedures.

Minimizing Missed Opportunities: Modeling Relationships between the State and Business in Russia

2009 ◽  
pp. 42-61
Author(s):  
A. Oleynik
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The State ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Power Domination ◽  
Individual Decision Making ◽  
Optimal Outcomes

Power involves a number of models of choice: maximizing, satisficing, coercion, and minimizing missed opportunities. The latter is explored in detail and linked to a particular type of power, domination by virtue of a constellation of interests. It is shown that domination by virtue of a constellation of interests calls for justification through references to a common good, i.e. a rent to be shared between Principal and Agent. Two sources of sub-optimal outcomes are compared: individual decision-making and interactions. Interactions organized in the form of power relationships lead to sub-optimal outcomes for at least one side, Agent. Some empirical evidence from Russia is provided for illustrative purposes.

The Changing Patterns of North Korea’s International Film Co-Productions Since the 1980s: A Global Value Chain Approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Moon Hwy-Chang ◽  
Wenyang Yin
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Film Productions

Although North Korea is one of the most closed countries in the world, it has long been pursuing international cooperation with other countries in order to upgrade the quality of its film industry to international standards. Preceding studies on this topic have mainly focused on the political influences behind filmmaking in general and very few studies have exclusively dealt with North Korea’s international co-productions. In this respect, in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of the internalization strategy of North Korea’s film productions, this paper uses the global value chain as a framework for analysis. This approach helps understand the internationalization pattern of each value chain activity of film co-productions in terms of the film location and the methods for collaborating with foreign partners. By dividing the evolution of North Korea’s international co-productions into three periods since the 1980s, this paper finds that although North Korea has shown mixed results with different aspects of the film value chain, it has generally improved its internationalization over the three periods. This paper further provides strategic directions for North Korea by learning some of the successful Chinese experiences in the film sector regarding collaboration with foreign partners—to foster a win-win situation for all involved parties.

Lifting the Veil

2014 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Scott Pittman
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
State Government ◽  
The State ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Hiring And Firing ◽  
And Control ◽  
California Schools

The story of anti-communism in California schools is a tale well and often told. But few scholars have appreciated the important role played by private surveillance networks. This article examines how privately funded and run investigations shaped the state government’s pursuit of leftist educators. The previously-secret papers of Major General Ralph H. Van Deman, which were opened to researchers at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., only a few years ago, show that the general operated a private spy network out of San Diego and fed information to military, federal, and state government agencies. Moreover, he taught the state government’s chief anti-communist bureaucrat, Richard E. Combs, how to recruit informants and monitor and control subversives. The case of the suspicious death of one University of California, Los Angeles student – a student that the anti-communists claimed had been “scared to death” by the Reds – shows the extent of the collaboration between Combs and Van Deman. It further illustrates how they conspired to promote fear of communism, influence hiring and firing of University of California faculty, and punish those educators who did not support their project. Although it was rarely successful, Combs’ and Van Deman’s coordinated campaign reveals a story of public-private anticommunist collaboration in California that has been largely forgotten. Because Van Deman’s files are now finally open to researchers, Californians can gain a much more complete understanding of their state bureaucracy’s role in the Red Scare purges of California educators.

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