Rival commodity chains

Agency and regulation in the US and Colombian cut flower agro-industries

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12316331
AutoresAnouk Patel-Campillo, Anouk Patel‐campillo (0000-0002-9841-4310, Pennsylvania State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas75-102
Fecha de publicación2010-02-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReview of International Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0969-2290 • E-ISSN: 1466-4526
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09692290903296094
OpenAlexW2057157038
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas37

Export-oriented development strategies and trade regimes encourage the incorporation of developing country exports into northern markets, often bringing them into competition with domestic suppliers. While studies of transnational commodity flows focus on the organization and coordination of economic activities over geographic space, little research has been done on their competitive relations. In this article, I focus on the political economy of disputes over market access by linking trade regimes to the economic and political activities of actors in the rival Colombian and US cut flower commodity chains. I argue that the regulation of the Colombian and US cut flower commodity chains is a process marked by institutional mediation and political and economic contestation. In shaping their economic spaces, a combination of shifting discourses, litigation, and political lobbying in sites of power are used by economic actors to meet their interests. The examination of rivalry over market access shows variation in the configuration of economic activity in the US cut flower market over time while drawing attention to the dynamic interaction among economic actors, institutions, and markets

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