Industrial development in buyer-driven networks
The garment industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12694802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hege Merete Knutsen (0000-0003-0708-0333, University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 545-564 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2702 • E-ISSN: 1468-2710 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jnlecg/lbh032 |
| OpenAlex | W1999605021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 8 |
The garment industry in Vietnam has been included in global buyer-driven networks since the 1990 s. Industrial upgrading takes place, but the changes are generally small and incremental. Profit margins tend to decline and backward linkages in the home country are few. The garment industry in Sri Lanka was included in buyer-driven networks already in the 1980 s and shares this experience. The objective is to explain what processes and mechanisms that lead to this outcome and discuss in what respects it is a result of contingencies and in what respects impediments to industrial development are inherent to buyer-driven networks
Business · Commerce · Economics · Industrial organization · Socioeconomics · Sri lanka · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Global trade and economics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
Globalization and Regional Change in the U.S. Furniture Industry
Garments without guilt? Uneven labour geographies and ethical trading—Sri Lankan labour perspectives
Garment exports from Vietnam
Subcontracting and Supplier Innovativeness in a Developing Economy
The making of a ‘business case’ for environmental upgrading
Metal free factories
Asymmetrical power relations and upgrading among suppliers of global clothing brands
The costs of compliance? Views of Sri Lankan apparel manufacturers in times of global economic crisis
The constitutive role of illicit activities in global production networks
Trade Unions Walking the Tightrope in Defending Workers' Interests
City networks and commodity chains
Networks, firms and upgrading within the blue-jeans industry
Conceptualizing Labor Regimes in Global Production Networks
A dynamic model of global value network governance
The fragility of public-private labour governance in times of crisis
The weakest link? Unions, freedom of association and ethical codes
Spatializing commodity chains
Networks of value, commodities and regions
Impediments to Promoting Backward Linkages from the Garment Industry in Sri Lanka
Export Success Against the Odds
Apparel-based industrialization in the Caribbean Basin
Retailers, knowledges and changing commodity networks
Chains and networks, territories and scales
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |