Mike Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 343 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Interested and employed? A national study of gender differences in basic interests and employment
The development of capitalism in South African agriculture: Class struggle in the countryside
The development of capitalism in South African agriculture has received very little attention. This chapter attempts an analysis of the contradictions within agriculture and between the capitalist countryside and the towns in the twentieth century, after the capitalist mode of production had come to dominate much of South African agriculture. The class struggle in social formations is the only site in which the existence/reproduction of a mode of…
Servicification of Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Upgrading of Local Suppliers of Embedded Services in the South African Market for Wind Turbines
While services are an essential element in the global production, trade and consumption of manufactured goods, limited research has been conducted on the role of services in studies of global value chains (GVCs). Recently, however, an emerging literature on the ‘servicification’ of manufacturing in GVCs has evolved, most of which involves aggregate-level analyses of countries and sectors based on trade statistics. Previous studies have thus faile…
Linking the energy transition and economic development: A framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South
The role of regional value chains in fostering regional integration in Southern Africa
Regional integration is making steady progress in Africa and a key objective is to improve the prospects for industrialisation by expanding the regional market. The paper draws on a combination of trade data analysis and industry case studies to better understand the links and synergies between regional value chains and regional integration. The trade data and case studies of two diverse sectors (garments and food retailing) demonstrate the expan…
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia's Apparel Sector
This article examines whether low-income countries can still benefit from participating in manufacturing global value chains (GVCs) in terms of broader industrial development in a global context of greater competition and higher requirements. It contends that developing internationally competitive local firms and domestic linkages, in addition to upgrading, is crucial for participation in GVCs to drive industrialization. The study focuses on Ethi…
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between four sets of rent—gifts of nature; innovation rents; exogenously defined rents; and market power—and three spheres of governance—setting the rules -“legislative governance”; implementing the rules -“executive go…
Regionalism, end markets and ownership matter: Shifting dynamics in the apparel export industry in Sub Saharan Africa
This paper shows the importance of ownership, end markets and regionalism within the global value chain and related conceptual frameworks. This is done through unpacking the development trajectories of the major Sub Saharan African apparel export industries against the backdrop of trade regime changes. Ownership characteristics of supplier firms shape the ability to shift between different end markets and respond to lead firm requirements; and th…
Thinning and Thickening: Productive Sector Policies in The Era of Global Value Chains
Value Chain Dynamics of Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia: Enclave or Linkage Development
Industrialization Trajectories in Madagascar’s Export Apparel Industry: Ownership, Embeddedness, Markets, and Upgrading
“One thing leads to another”—Commodities, linkages and industrial development
Chinese FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: Engaging with Large Dragons
In the context of widespread interest in the impact of Chinese investment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this paper focuses on SSA's engagement with large state-owned Chinese firms investing in SSA's resource and infrastructure sectors. Evidence is provided on the extent of different types of Chinese investment, before focusing on the distinctive character of large scale state-owned Chinese investors, whose investments are closely bundled with aid …
Staying alive in the global automotive industry: What can developing economies learn from South Africa about linking into global automotive value chains
Do the Asian Drivers Undermine Export-oriented Industrialization in SSA
China's Dominance of Global Clothing and Textiles: Is Preferential Trade Access an Answer for Sub-Saharan Africa
Organising cluster cooperation and learning networks in South Africa
Bill Freund's work on cities has stressed a number of themes, important amongst these have been the necessity to take the social and economic processes within them as forces in their own right. Whi
Driving environmental certification: Its impact on the furniture and timber products value chain in South Africa
The Globalization of Product Markets and Immiserizing Growth: Lessons From the South African Furniture Industry
Creating Value-chain Cooperation
The Problem Globalisation is not simply an increase in international trade. It is also the production of manufactured components linked and coordinated on a global scale (Dicken 1998). Value-chain analysis has been used productively to yield insight into the dynamics of how firms are globally interconnected
Trade Policy Reform and the Competitive Response in Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa
Violence and sustainable development in the Durban Metropolitan area
The Challenges Facing South African Universities
The challenges facing South African universities in this transition from apartheid to a non-racial democratic society are immense. They are however also diverse, for there is no general South African university. The universities diffe enormously in their history, composition and functions
From Violence to Reconstruction: The Making, Disintegration and Remaking of an Apartheid City
S This article analyzes the relationship between violence and the racial city. It examines Durban's construction and disintegration in the context of unsuccessful apartheid reform, and traces corresponding distinct but overlapping stages of violence. Internecine violence of the latter 1980s constituted a racially displaced confrontation over political control and resources of the society transformed into internecine conflict within black resident…
South Africa: Political violence, reform and reconstruction
The endemic violence sweeping South Africa is often said to be the fault of apartheid. If the point being made is a moral one then this is obviously true. However, if a holistic explanation rooted in material, social and historical processes is being sought then two questions have to be addressed: why is this occurring now when apartheid is in demise rather than 15 or 20 years ago when it was at its peak? Furthermore, why in a society where white…
The development of capitalism in South African agriculture: Clas Struggle in the Countryside
1976). The development of capitalism in South African agriculture: clas struggle in the countryside. Economy and Society: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 292-343
Chinese FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: Engaging with Large Dragons
In the context of widespread interest in the impact of Chinese investment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this paper focuses on SSA's engagement with large state-owned Chinese firms investing in SSA's resource and infrastructure sectors. Evidence is provided on the extent of different types of Chinese investment, before focusing on the distinctive character of large scale state-owned Chinese investors, whose investments are closely bundled with aid …
Do the Asian Drivers Undermine Export-oriented Industrialization in SSA
Class struggle and the periodisation of the state in South Africa
This article represents an attempt to periodise the South African state through an analysis of political class struggle. The analysis draws heavily on the theoretical work of Nicos Poulzantzas. The changing patterns of conflict and alliance between the different classes and “fractions” in the “power bloc” are traced in an attempt to identify changes in the form of state and form of regime. The analysis, concentrating on three historical periods —…
Thinning and Thickening: Productive Sector Policies in The Era of Global Value Chains
The Globalization of Product Markets and Immiserizing Growth: Lessons From the South African Furniture Industry
Industrialization Trajectories in Madagascar’s Export Apparel Industry: Ownership, Embeddedness, Markets, and Upgrading
Driving environmental certification: Its impact on the furniture and timber products value chain in South Africa
South Africa: Political violence, reform and reconstruction
The endemic violence sweeping South Africa is often said to be the fault of apartheid. If the point being made is a moral one then this is obviously true. However, if a holistic explanation rooted in material, social and historical processes is being sought then two questions have to be addressed: why is this occurring now when apartheid is in demise rather than 15 or 20 years ago when it was at its peak? Furthermore, why in a society where white…
Value Chain Dynamics of Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia: Enclave or Linkage Development
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between four sets of rent—gifts of nature; innovation rents; exogenously defined rents; and market power—and three spheres of governance—setting the rules -“legislative governance”; implementing the rules -“executive go…
Staying alive in the global automotive industry: What can developing economies learn from South Africa about linking into global automotive value chains
Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia's Apparel Sector
This article examines whether low-income countries can still benefit from participating in manufacturing global value chains (GVCs) in terms of broader industrial development in a global context of greater competition and higher requirements. It contends that developing internationally competitive local firms and domestic linkages, in addition to upgrading, is crucial for participation in GVCs to drive industrialization. The study focuses on Ethi…
Regionalism, end markets and ownership matter: Shifting dynamics in the apparel export industry in Sub Saharan Africa
This paper shows the importance of ownership, end markets and regionalism within the global value chain and related conceptual frameworks. This is done through unpacking the development trajectories of the major Sub Saharan African apparel export industries against the backdrop of trade regime changes. Ownership characteristics of supplier firms shape the ability to shift between different end markets and respond to lead firm requirements; and th…
Linking the energy transition and economic development: A framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South
From Violence to Reconstruction: The Making, Disintegration and Remaking of an Apartheid City
S This article analyzes the relationship between violence and the racial city. It examines Durban's construction and disintegration in the context of unsuccessful apartheid reform, and traces corresponding distinct but overlapping stages of violence. Internecine violence of the latter 1980s constituted a racially displaced confrontation over political control and resources of the society transformed into internecine conflict within black resident…
Social history and the transition to capitalism in the South African countryside
(1988). Social history and the transition to capitalism in the South African countryside. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 15, No. 41, pp. 60-72
China's Dominance of Global Clothing and Textiles: Is Preferential Trade Access an Answer for Sub-Saharan Africa
Organising cluster cooperation and learning networks in South Africa
Bill Freund's work on cities has stressed a number of themes, important amongst these have been the necessity to take the social and economic processes within them as forces in their own right. Whi
Trade Policy Reform and the Competitive Response in Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa
Creating Value-chain Cooperation
The Problem Globalisation is not simply an increase in international trade. It is also the production of manufactured components linked and coordinated on a global scale (Dicken 1998). Value-chain analysis has been used productively to yield insight into the dynamics of how firms are globally interconnected
Level of aspiration in college leaders and nonleaders
Level of aspiration in college leaders and nonleaders
The development of capitalism in South Africa
Source Material on the South African Economy 1860–1970 by H. Hobart Houghton and J. Dagut. Vol. 1, 1972, pp. 369; Vol. II, 1972, pp. 247; Vol. III, 1973, pp. 263. Cape Town: Oxford University Press
Class struggle and the periodisation of the state in South Africa
This article represents an attempt to periodise the South African state through an analysis of political class struggle. The analysis draws heavily on the theoretical work of Nicos Poulzantzas. The changing patterns of conflict and alliance between the different classes and “fractions” in the “power bloc” are traced in an attempt to identify changes in the form of state and form of regime. The analysis, concentrating on three historical periods —…
The development of capitalism in South African agriculture: Clas Struggle in the Countryside
1976). The development of capitalism in South African agriculture: clas struggle in the countryside. Economy and Society: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 292-343
Communicating with Adolescents
Social history and the transition to capitalism in the South African countryside
(1988). Social history and the transition to capitalism in the South African countryside. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 15, No. 41, pp. 60-72
South Africa: Political violence, reform and reconstruction
The endemic violence sweeping South Africa is often said to be the fault of apartheid. If the point being made is a moral one then this is obviously true. However, if a holistic explanation rooted in material, social and historical processes is being sought then two questions have to be addressed: why is this occurring now when apartheid is in demise rather than 15 or 20 years ago when it was at its peak? Furthermore, why in a society where white…
The Challenges Facing South African Universities
The challenges facing South African universities in this transition from apartheid to a non-racial democratic society are immense. They are however also diverse, for there is no general South African university. The universities diffe enormously in their history, composition and functions
From Violence to Reconstruction: The Making, Disintegration and Remaking of an Apartheid City
S This article analyzes the relationship between violence and the racial city. It examines Durban's construction and disintegration in the context of unsuccessful apartheid reform, and traces corresponding distinct but overlapping stages of violence. Internecine violence of the latter 1980s constituted a racially displaced confrontation over political control and resources of the society transformed into internecine conflict within black resident…
Violence and sustainable development in the Durban Metropolitan area
Trade Policy Reform and the Competitive Response in Kwazulu Natal Province, South Africa
Creating Value-chain Cooperation
The Problem Globalisation is not simply an increase in international trade. It is also the production of manufactured components linked and coordinated on a global scale (Dicken 1998). Value-chain analysis has been used productively to yield insight into the dynamics of how firms are globally interconnected
The Globalization of Product Markets and Immiserizing Growth: Lessons From the South African Furniture Industry
Driving environmental certification: Its impact on the furniture and timber products value chain in South Africa
China's Dominance of Global Clothing and Textiles: Is Preferential Trade Access an Answer for Sub-Saharan Africa
Organising cluster cooperation and learning networks in South Africa
Bill Freund's work on cities has stressed a number of themes, important amongst these have been the necessity to take the social and economic processes within them as forces in their own right. Whi
Do the Asian Drivers Undermine Export-oriented Industrialization in SSA
Staying alive in the global automotive industry: What can developing economies learn from South Africa about linking into global automotive value chains
Chinese FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: Engaging with Large Dragons
In the context of widespread interest in the impact of Chinese investment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this paper focuses on SSA's engagement with large state-owned Chinese firms investing in SSA's resource and infrastructure sectors. Evidence is provided on the extent of different types of Chinese investment, before focusing on the distinctive character of large scale state-owned Chinese investors, whose investments are closely bundled with aid …
“One thing leads to another”—Commodities, linkages and industrial development
Value Chain Dynamics of Chinese Copper Mining in Zambia: Enclave or Linkage Development
Industrialization Trajectories in Madagascar’s Export Apparel Industry: Ownership, Embeddedness, Markets, and Upgrading
Thinning and Thickening: Productive Sector Policies in The Era of Global Value Chains
Regionalism, end markets and ownership matter: Shifting dynamics in the apparel export industry in Sub Saharan Africa
This paper shows the importance of ownership, end markets and regionalism within the global value chain and related conceptual frameworks. This is done through unpacking the development trajectories of the major Sub Saharan African apparel export industries against the backdrop of trade regime changes. Ownership characteristics of supplier firms shape the ability to shift between different end markets and respond to lead firm requirements; and th…
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between four sets of rent—gifts of nature; innovation rents; exogenously defined rents; and market power—and three spheres of governance—setting the rules -“legislative governance”; implementing the rules -“executive go…
Economics (22 works) · Business (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Global trade and economics (10 works) · International trade (10 works) · Market economy (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works)