J Bair
Biographic Data
| ID | 14240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Bair |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bair |
| SIGNATURE | BAIR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5083-1385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 743 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Ripe 2023 diversity statement
Global value and wealth chains in contemporary capitalism: Editorial introduction
This introduction to a special section on global value chains and global wealth chains elaborates on the concept of entanglement as a way to understand dynamics of value capture, accumulation and inequality in contemporary capitalism. The authors first review the analytical framework they have proposed for analyzing entangled chains based on two dimensions: 1) the relative importance of intangible versus tangible assets; and (2) the primary strat…
Entangled chains of global value and wealth
In recent decades multinational enterprises have developed ways to reorganize production and trade through Global Value Chains (GVCs), and to manage assets and liabilities through Global Wealth Chains (GWCs). This co-evolution has permitted the hyper-extraction of labor and natural resources through financial and legal technologies, entangling value creation and wealth accumulation. While scholars have separately acknowledged the role that GVCs a…
Ripe 30th anniversary special feature: Looking back and looking forward in IPE
The field of International Political Economy (IPE) has changed considerably since the inception of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE).This 30th anniversary editorial reflects on how these changes have impacted the journal's publications over the past ten years.Some trends are promising.RIPE has become more gender inclusive, as the share of women authors in submissions and publications has risen.RIPE has also resisted the 'quanti…
Ripe 2022 diversity statement
Where is the world in the new state capitalism
State capitalism; hegemonic cycles; macrohistorical sociology
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors
The relationship between power, governance and value creation/capture is a central concern in global value chain (GVC) research. In the context of calls to develop a more expansive view of power in GVCs, we argue for retaining a focus on bargaining power, but shifting the conceptualization of bargaining power from the dyad to the network. We advance two arguments. First, we elaborate an exchange theoretic model in which skew of value capture is a…
Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda
Power is a central, but largely undertheorized, concept for scholars of global value chains (GVCs). In this introduction to a special issue on power and inequality in GVCs, the authors summarize the key insights from the articles gathered here and explain how the collection advances our understanding of the types and forms of power operating in GVCs and their effect on different dimensions of inequality
Ripe 2021 diversity statement
As part of our commitment to diversity in academic publishing, since 2021 the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) publishes annual diversity statements providing information about RIPE’s editorial team and contributors (see Bair et al. 2021a, 2021b). \n \nWe recognise that the information thus presented provides only a very limited characterisation of diversity in our field, given significant restrictions on the data we can collect. …
International NGOs in Global Aid Chains
Much of the research on international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) emphasizes their role as transnational actors on a global scale, but INGOs also have a national dimension—they originate in home countries, and they carry out activities in host or recipient countries. How can we understand the way they are shaped by and operate across these multiple contexts? This paper examines differences between U.S.-based, Japanese, and South Korean …
Ripe 2020 diversity statement
As part of our commitment to diversity in academic publishing, the editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) decided in 2020 to publish annually a diversity statement, providing information about RIPE’s editorial team and contributors. Bair et al. (2021) provide further information on our commitment to strengthening equality, diversity and inclusion in international political economy and in the pages of RIPE. \n \n
Strengthening Ripe’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in our field
As editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), we are committed to expanding intellectual horizons and reflecting diverse perspectives to stimulate eye-opening discussions of global political and economic affairs. In delivering the journal’s mission of encouraging a global, interdisciplinary, and pluralist approach to publishing peer-reviewed excellent and innovative international political economy research, we strive to offe…
"Capitalist crisis in the "age of global value chains
In this article, we analyze the strategies, surprises, and sidesteps in the World Bank's 2020 World Development Report, Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains . Strategically, the Report promotes an expansion of neoliberal globalization couched in the language of global value chains. Curiously detached from the broader academic literature on global value chains in international trade, it promotes a sequentialist vision of globa…
Making Work More Equal: A New Labour Market Segmentation Approach
The Political Economy of Private and Public Regulation in Post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh
How do public and private labor governance regimes intersect in global supply chains and with what effects? Based on fieldwork in Bangladesh, including interviews with garment industry stakeholders, this article examines the main public and private regulatory reforms instituted in post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh: the Sustainability Compact and the Bangladesh Accord, respectively. Despite the Accord's substantial achievements in improving workplace saf…
Dialectics of dissociation
In their discussion of ‘dissociation’, Ibert et al. ((2019) Geographies of dissociation: value creation, ‘dark’ places, and ‘missing’ links. Dialogues in Human Geography.) explore the negative side of branding—that is, the efforts companies take to avoid being identified with problems such as labor exploitation or environmental degradation. Because the introduction of unwanted associations into the semiotic circuit threatens the value of brands, …
Roads from Calabria: The Arrighian approach to agrarian political economy
Scholars of agrarian change have long debated the nature of capitalist transition in the countryside, including whether the deepened interlinking of local, national, and transnational economic activities make past trajectories of agrarian transformation unlikely to reoccur in the present. This essay makes the case that Giovanni Arrighi's work has much to add to our understanding of the agrarian question in global historical perspective. We focus …
Class formation and commodity chains in the making of regional monocultures: Agrarian reform from above and below in Mexico's henequen and cotton zones
This paper analyses the rise and fall of two regional monocultures in Mexico: the henequen zone in the southern state of Yucatán and the cotton-growing area of La Laguna. Both regions experienced a dramatic expansion of commodity production between 1870 and 1910, but their key crops came to be cultivated under different labour regimes: debt peonage in the case of henequen and wage labour in the case of cotton. The process of class formation that …
Contextualising compliance: Hybrid governance in global value chains
Widespread disappointment with compliance auditing in supply chains has led to a search for new governance solutions in global industries. Recent scholarship on labour standards in supply chains emphasises the need for complementarity between public and private forms of governance, and the importance of local contexts in shaping compliance outcomes. This paper, in contrast, argues that the distinction between public and private governance belies …
New Geographies of Uneven Development in Global Formation: Thinking with Chase-Dunn
From cultural sojourner to guestworker? The historical transformation and contemporary significance of the J-1 visa Summer Work Travel Program
Since the mid-1990s, the J-1 Summer Work Travel (SWT) program has quadrupled in size. While many J-1 visa holders are in the U.S. to study or conduct research, the primary activity of SWT participants is low-wage labor. We analyze the trajectory of the SWT program since its origins in the Fulbright-Hays Act, underscoring both change and continuity in the practical and discursive handling of what are, in effect, guestworkers. Our analysis reveals …
The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? This volume examines these questions by drawing on historical documents, interviews, qualitative case comparison, fieldwork, multiple regression, time-series analysis and multidimensional scaling, among others. Informed by neoinstitutionalism and political economy approaches, the authors examine …
Regional trade agreements and export competitiveness: The uncertain path of Nicaragua’s apparel exports under Cafta
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been a mixed blessing for economic development. While exports to the US economy have increased, dependency may hinder economic growth if countries do not diversify or upgrade before temporary provisions expire. This article evaluates the impact of the temporary Tariff Preference Levels (TPLs) granted to Nicaragua under CAFTA and the consequences of TPL expiration. Using trade statistics, count…
Putting Organizational Transformation and Workplace Dynamics in Global Context
We Are in This Dance Together is first and foremost a powerful workplace ethnography that captures the challenges confronting employees in a Mexican garment firm called Moctezuma. But readers who approach it from a world-system perspective are likely to be impressed by another dimension of the book, which is the effort its author makes to connect changes experienced on a local shopfloor with broader geographical shifts and organizational transfor…
Governing global value chains: An Introduction
This introductory paper to the special issue on governing global value chains (GVCs) focuses on the concept of governance as the dimension of GVCs that has received the most theoretical and empirical attention to date. After a brief introduction of the GVC concept in relation to the literature on economic globalization, we review the three main interpretations of GVC governance that have been advanced: governance as driving, governance as coordin…
Local Clusters in Global Chains: The Causes and Consequences of Export Dynamism in Torreon's Blue Jeans Industry
Analysing global economic organization: Embedded Networks and Global Chains Compared
This article analyses the network epistemologies that underlie several frameworks for studying global economic organization. Specifically, the embedded network of the new economic sociology is compared with various global chain constructs that seek to emphasize the connectedness of actors and activities across space. I argue that the micro-sociological foundations of the new economic sociology make embeddedness a problematic concept for analysing…
Commodity Chains and the Uneven Geographies of Global Capitalism: A Disarticulations Perspective
There is no abstract for this paper
The Place of Disarticulations: Global Commodity Production in La Laguna, Mexico
Studies of the shifting social organization and geography of global garment production have been critical to the development of the commodity chains framework as an important field of study for scholars of political economy in various disciplines. Our paper intervenes in this literature by proposing what we call a 'disarticulations' perspective, an approach attentive to historical and spatial processes of accumulation, disinvestment and disposses…
Global commodity chains and endogenous growth: Export dynamism and development in Mexico and Honduras
Upgrading, uneven development, and jobs in the North American apparel industry
In this article we examine the developmental consequences of globalization at multiple scales, using a commodity chains framework to investigate the case of the North American apparel industry. In the first section we outline the apparel commodity chain and offer a brief typology of its lead firms. In the second section we discuss the concept of industrial upgrading and describe several main export roles in the global apparel industry. In the thi…
Contextualising compliance: Hybrid governance in global value chains
Widespread disappointment with compliance auditing in supply chains has led to a search for new governance solutions in global industries. Recent scholarship on labour standards in supply chains emphasises the need for complementarity between public and private forms of governance, and the importance of local contexts in shaping compliance outcomes. This paper, in contrast, argues that the distinction between public and private governance belies …
CSR beyond the corporation: Contested Governance in Global Value Chains
The frontier of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is constantly being negotiated by corporate and non-corporate actors that vie to define its meaning and scope. In this article, we explore the relationship between CSR and governance in the context of global value chains that span both organizational boundaries and geographic borders. We draw on the CSR and global value chain literature to highlight the nexus between CSR and what we see as two…
Linking Up to Development? Global Value Chains and the Making of a Post-Washington Consensus
Over the last decade, the global value chain (GVC) approach, with its associated notions of chain governance and firm upgrading, has proliferated as a mode of analysis and of intervention amongst development institutions. This article examines the adoption and adaptation of GVCs at four multilateral agencies in order to understand the purchase of value chain approaches within the development field. Mixing GVC perspectives with other theoretical i…
From Varieties of Capitalism to Varieties of Activism: The Antisweatshop Movement in Comparative Perspective
Journal Article From Varieties of Capitalism to Varieties of Activism: The Antisweatshop Movement in Comparative Perspective Get access Jennifer Bair, Jennifer Bair Direct correspondence to: Jennifer Bair, UCB 327, Boulder, CO 80309. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Florence Palpacuer Florence Palpacuer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMe…
The Political Economy of Private and Public Regulation in Post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh
How do public and private labor governance regimes intersect in global supply chains and with what effects? Based on fieldwork in Bangladesh, including interviews with garment industry stakeholders, this article examines the main public and private regulatory reforms instituted in post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh: the Sustainability Compact and the Bangladesh Accord, respectively. Despite the Accord's substantial achievements in improving workplace saf…
Making Work More Equal: A New Labour Market Segmentation Approach
Entangled chains of global value and wealth
In recent decades multinational enterprises have developed ways to reorganize production and trade through Global Value Chains (GVCs), and to manage assets and liabilities through Global Wealth Chains (GWCs). This co-evolution has permitted the hyper-extraction of labor and natural resources through financial and legal technologies, entangling value creation and wealth accumulation. While scholars have separately acknowledged the role that GVCs a…
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors
The relationship between power, governance and value creation/capture is a central concern in global value chain (GVC) research. In the context of calls to develop a more expansive view of power in GVCs, we argue for retaining a focus on bargaining power, but shifting the conceptualization of bargaining power from the dyad to the network. We advance two arguments. First, we elaborate an exchange theoretic model in which skew of value capture is a…
"Capitalist crisis in the "age of global value chains
In this article, we analyze the strategies, surprises, and sidesteps in the World Bank's 2020 World Development Report, Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains . Strategically, the Report promotes an expansion of neoliberal globalization couched in the language of global value chains. Curiously detached from the broader academic literature on global value chains in international trade, it promotes a sequentialist vision of globa…
New Geographies of Uneven Development in Global Formation: Thinking with Chase-Dunn
Dialectics of dissociation
In their discussion of ‘dissociation’, Ibert et al. ((2019) Geographies of dissociation: value creation, ‘dark’ places, and ‘missing’ links. Dialogues in Human Geography.) explore the negative side of branding—that is, the efforts companies take to avoid being identified with problems such as labor exploitation or environmental degradation. Because the introduction of unwanted associations into the semiotic circuit threatens the value of brands, …
The legacies of partial possession: From agrarian struggle to neoliberal restructuring in Mexico and Colombia
How have communities in Latin America responded to neoliberal agrarian reforms? We address this question via an incorporated comparison of two regions affected by rural restructuring: La Laguna, Mexico and Viejo Caldas, Colombia. Prior to the introduction of market-led reforms, agricultural producers in both regions were heavily dependent on state support, yet in neither did they mobilize to resist neoliberal policies that were incompatible with …
From cultural sojourner to guestworker? The historical transformation and contemporary significance of the J-1 visa Summer Work Travel Program
Since the mid-1990s, the J-1 Summer Work Travel (SWT) program has quadrupled in size. While many J-1 visa holders are in the U.S. to study or conduct research, the primary activity of SWT participants is low-wage labor. We analyze the trajectory of the SWT program since its origins in the Fulbright-Hays Act, underscoring both change and continuity in the practical and discursive handling of what are, in effect, guestworkers. Our analysis reveals …
From the Politics of Development to the Challenges of Globalization
During the 1970s, the United Nations was the central front in the G-77's struggle to realize a ‘New International Economic Order’ (NIEO). A key plank in the NIEO platform was the regulation of multinational corporations; this objective was pursued via a draft Code of Conduct on Transnational Enterprises, formulated by a UN Commission created largely for that purpose. Although the Code was abandoned in 1992 after 14 years of negotiations, multinat…
Regional Trade and Production Blocs in a Global Industry: Towards a Comparative Framework for Research
While apparel manufacturing is often considered the quintessential global industry, the regional dimension of trade and production in the textile and clothing sector is less widely noted. In this paper I discuss two macroregional production blocs: North America (defined as the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean Basin countries) and Greater Europe [which includes the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, and North Africa].…
Class formation and commodity chains in the making of regional monocultures: Agrarian reform from above and below in Mexico's henequen and cotton zones
This paper analyses the rise and fall of two regional monocultures in Mexico: the henequen zone in the southern state of Yucatán and the cotton-growing area of La Laguna. Both regions experienced a dramatic expansion of commodity production between 1870 and 1910, but their key crops came to be cultivated under different labour regimes: debt peonage in the case of henequen and wage labour in the case of cotton. The process of class formation that …
Strengthening Ripe’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in our field
As editors of the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), we are committed to expanding intellectual horizons and reflecting diverse perspectives to stimulate eye-opening discussions of global political and economic affairs. In delivering the journal’s mission of encouraging a global, interdisciplinary, and pluralist approach to publishing peer-reviewed excellent and innovative international political economy research, we strive to offe…
Roads from Calabria: The Arrighian approach to agrarian political economy
Scholars of agrarian change have long debated the nature of capitalist transition in the countryside, including whether the deepened interlinking of local, national, and transnational economic activities make past trajectories of agrarian transformation unlikely to reoccur in the present. This essay makes the case that Giovanni Arrighi's work has much to add to our understanding of the agrarian question in global historical perspective. We focus …
Local Clusters in Global Chains: The Causes and Consequences of Export Dynamism in Torreon's Blue Jeans Industry
Upgrading, uneven development, and jobs in the North American apparel industry
In this article we examine the developmental consequences of globalization at multiple scales, using a commodity chains framework to investigate the case of the North American apparel industry. In the first section we outline the apparel commodity chain and offer a brief typology of its lead firms. In the second section we discuss the concept of industrial upgrading and describe several main export roles in the global apparel industry. In the thi…
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains: Looking Back, Going Forward
This paper assesses the achievements and limitations of commodity chain research as it has evolved over the last decade. The primary objectives are two-fold. First, I highlight an important but generally unacknowledged break between the original world-systems-inspired tradition of commodity chain research and two subsequent chain approaches, the global commodity chain (GCC) and global value chain (GVC) frameworks. Second, I argue that contra the …
Global commodity chains and endogenous growth: Export dynamism and development in Mexico and Honduras
Regional Trade and Production Blocs in a Global Industry: Towards a Comparative Framework for Research
While apparel manufacturing is often considered the quintessential global industry, the regional dimension of trade and production in the textile and clothing sector is less widely noted. In this paper I discuss two macroregional production blocs: North America (defined as the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean Basin countries) and Greater Europe [which includes the European Union (EU), Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, and North Africa].…
From the Politics of Development to the Challenges of Globalization
During the 1970s, the United Nations was the central front in the G-77's struggle to realize a ‘New International Economic Order’ (NIEO). A key plank in the NIEO platform was the regulation of multinational corporations; this objective was pursued via a draft Code of Conduct on Transnational Enterprises, formulated by a UN Commission created largely for that purpose. Although the Code was abandoned in 1992 after 14 years of negotiations, multinat…
Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain By John M. Talbot Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 238 pages. $77 (cloth), $29.95 (paper)
Journal Article Grounds for Agreement: The Political Economy of the Coffee Commodity Chain By John M. Talbot Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 238 pages. $77 (cloth), $29.95 (paper) Get access Jennifer Bair Jennifer Bair Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 85, Issue 3, March 2007, Pages 1449–1452, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2007.0031 Published: 01 March 2007
Analysing global economic organization: Embedded Networks and Global Chains Compared
This article analyses the network epistemologies that underlie several frameworks for studying global economic organization. Specifically, the embedded network of the new economic sociology is compared with various global chain constructs that seek to emphasize the connectedness of actors and activities across space. I argue that the micro-sociological foundations of the new economic sociology make embeddedness a problematic concept for analysing…
Governing global value chains: An Introduction
This introductory paper to the special issue on governing global value chains (GVCs) focuses on the concept of governance as the dimension of GVCs that has received the most theoretical and empirical attention to date. After a brief introduction of the GVC concept in relation to the literature on economic globalization, we review the three main interpretations of GVC governance that have been advanced: governance as driving, governance as coordin…
After Sweatshops? Apparel Politics in the Circum-Caribbean
The New Hegemon? Contingency and Agency in the Asian Age
Adam Smith in Beijing is an ambitious sequel to the work that is widely regarded as Giovanni Arrighi s most important, The Long Twentieth Century. Much like this earlier book, Adam Smith in Beijing is a long, sweeping and provocative exploration of capitalism s past, present, and future. In The Long Twentieth Century, Arrighi analyzed the 700 year history of the modern world system as a series of cycles of accumulation, each of which occurred und…
On Difference and Capital: Gender and the Globalization of Production
This article is both a review of, and an intervention in, the literature on gender and the globalization of production. Via a discussion of six key texts analyzing export-oriented manufacturing, ranging from Maria Mies's Lace Makers of Narsapur to Melissa Wright's Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism, I show that, over time, the focus has shifted from an emphasis on the feminization of manufacturing as a defining feature of globa…
Commodity Chains and the Uneven Geographies of Global Capitalism: A Disarticulations Perspective
There is no abstract for this paper
The Place of Disarticulations: Global Commodity Production in La Laguna, Mexico
Studies of the shifting social organization and geography of global garment production have been critical to the development of the commodity chains framework as an important field of study for scholars of political economy in various disciplines. Our paper intervenes in this literature by proposing what we call a 'disarticulations' perspective, an approach attentive to historical and spatial processes of accumulation, disinvestment and disposses…
Dispossession, Class Formation, and the Political Imaginary of Colombia's Coffee Producers over the Longue Duree: Beyond the Polanyian Analytic
For more than a decade, social scientists have been analyzing the implications of the neoliberalturn in development policy and the implications of market-led agrarian reform for agriculturalproducers in the global South. Among this work is a spate of recent scholarship celebrating anumber of flagship movements, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico or the landless movement inBrazil, which are interpreted as efforts by rural communities to resist the t…
From Varieties of Capitalism to Varieties of Activism: The Antisweatshop Movement in Comparative Perspective
Journal Article From Varieties of Capitalism to Varieties of Activism: The Antisweatshop Movement in Comparative Perspective Get access Jennifer Bair, Jennifer Bair Direct correspondence to: Jennifer Bair, UCB 327, Boulder, CO 80309. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Florence Palpacuer Florence Palpacuer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMe…
The legacies of partial possession: From agrarian struggle to neoliberal restructuring in Mexico and Colombia
How have communities in Latin America responded to neoliberal agrarian reforms? We address this question via an incorporated comparison of two regions affected by rural restructuring: La Laguna, Mexico and Viejo Caldas, Colombia. Prior to the introduction of market-led reforms, agricultural producers in both regions were heavily dependent on state support, yet in neither did they mobilize to resist neoliberal policies that were incompatible with …
The Unintended Consequences of Organizational Change: We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Factory
Linking Up to Development? Global Value Chains and the Making of a Post-Washington Consensus
Over the last decade, the global value chain (GVC) approach, with its associated notions of chain governance and firm upgrading, has proliferated as a mode of analysis and of intervention amongst development institutions. This article examines the adoption and adaptation of GVCs at four multilateral agencies in order to understand the purchase of value chain approaches within the development field. Mixing GVC perspectives with other theoretical i…
The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? This volume examines these questions by drawing on historical documents, interviews, qualitative case comparison, fieldwork, multiple regression, time-series analysis and multidimensional scaling, among others. Informed by neoinstitutionalism and political economy approaches, the authors examine …
Regional trade agreements and export competitiveness: The uncertain path of Nicaragua’s apparel exports under Cafta
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been a mixed blessing for economic development. While exports to the US economy have increased, dependency may hinder economic growth if countries do not diversify or upgrade before temporary provisions expire. This article evaluates the impact of the temporary Tariff Preference Levels (TPLs) granted to Nicaragua under CAFTA and the consequences of TPL expiration. Using trade statistics, count…
Putting Organizational Transformation and Workplace Dynamics in Global Context
We Are in This Dance Together is first and foremost a powerful workplace ethnography that captures the challenges confronting employees in a Mexican garment firm called Moctezuma. But readers who approach it from a world-system perspective are likely to be impressed by another dimension of the book, which is the effort its author makes to connect changes experienced on a local shopfloor with broader geographical shifts and organizational transfor…
CSR beyond the corporation: Contested Governance in Global Value Chains
The frontier of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is constantly being negotiated by corporate and non-corporate actors that vie to define its meaning and scope. In this article, we explore the relationship between CSR and governance in the context of global value chains that span both organizational boundaries and geographic borders. We draw on the CSR and global value chain literature to highlight the nexus between CSR and what we see as two…
Contextualising compliance: Hybrid governance in global value chains
Widespread disappointment with compliance auditing in supply chains has led to a search for new governance solutions in global industries. Recent scholarship on labour standards in supply chains emphasises the need for complementarity between public and private forms of governance, and the importance of local contexts in shaping compliance outcomes. This paper, in contrast, argues that the distinction between public and private governance belies …
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