Global value chains
From Governance to Governmentality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Gibbons, Peter Gibbon (Danish Institute for International Studies), Stefano Pontes (0000-0001-6788-8700, Danish Institute for International Studies) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 365-392 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085140802172680 |
| OpenAlex | W2057175231 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 52 |
One of the main preoccupations of global value chain (GVC) analysis has been how value chains are governed and by which types of firms. Most current conceptualizations distinguish between different types of GVC governance and see them as effects of given distributions of attributes between firms along chains. The governmentality literature instead sees economic governance primarily in terms of invoked models of practice, and interprets it through economic agents' descriptions of their own governing (or governed) practices. Drawing on the specialized magazines, training manuals and professional journals that served purchasing practitioners in US manufacturing, this article draws attention to the hitherto unexplored role of expert knowledge and practices in GVC governance. At the same time, it highlights that the governmentality literature glosses over problems associated with the actual implementation and effectiveness of expert practices. The article concludes by reflecting on the theoretical implications of such an analysis for both the GVC and the governmentality literatures
Global value chain · Governmentality · Value (mathematics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
Les mondes agricoles en politique
Global value chains, rising power firms and economic and social upgrading
Commodity chains, creative destruction and global inequality
Towards a typology of repositioning strategies of GVC/GPN suppliers
The evolution of power in the global coffee value chain and production network
The powers of a social auditor in a global production network
The Bitter and the Sweet
Value chains, partnerships and development
Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields
Power in global value chains
From Fishery to Fork
A Level Playing Field”? – What an Environmental Justice Lens Can Tell us about Who Gets Leveled in the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan
Voluntary standards, certification, and accreditation in the global organic agriculture field
Indigenous worldviews and Western conventions
A tripartite standards regime analysis of the contested development of a sustainable agriculture standard
Values, conventions, innovation and sociopolitical struggles in a local food system
Geographies of production II
Standardized food governance? Reflections on the potential and limitations of chemical-free shrimp
Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee
Local Means in Value Chain Ends
Global benchmarking networks
The advent of the transnational TV format trading system
The Bridging Role of Intermediaries in Food Production Networks
Slow Food, Shared Values, and Indigenous Empowerment in an Alternative Commodity Chain Linking Brazil and Europe
Renting legality
Conventions, commodity chains and local food systems
Global production networks, labour and development
Framing industrialization of the offshore wind value chain – A discourse approach to an event
Metal free factories
Business, power, and private regulatory governance
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains
Power Symmetry in Global Value Chains
Assembling the Space Economy
Explaining governance in global value chains
Local or localized? Exploring the contributions of Franco-Mediterranean agrifood theory to alternative food research
Green Consumption, Ecolabelling and Capitalism's Environmental Limits
Conventions in Cross-Border Trade Coordination
Mapping Value in a 'Green' Commodity Frontier
Auditing the subjects of fair trade
Governing through Quality
Making connections
The new luxury freeports
Performative Regional (dis)Integration
The Missing Link between Technological Standards and Value-Chain Governance
Cultivating Compliance
From coca to cocoa
Lead Firms in the Cocoa-Chocolate Global Production Network
Global Standards, Local Realities
Economic Geographies of Brands and Branding
Labour Networks under Supply Chain Capitalism
Power and inequality in global value chains
Power in consensus
Straddling Contract and Estate Farming
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and the Making of a Market for 'Sustainable Fish
The 'government of men
Cloth without a weaver
The antinomies of audit
Calculating sustainability in supply chain capitalism
The government of self-regulation
Governing global value chains
Transnational multi-stakeholder sustainability standards and biofuels
The World's Newest Profession
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains
Modular production networks
Is Economics Performative? Option Theory and the Construction of Derivatives Markets
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
An Engine, Not a Camera
The Asian crisis and the shaping of 'proper' economies
The Subject and Power
What Does It Mean to Say That Economics Is Performative
Inventing Systems Integration
The governance of global value chains
Bans, tests, and alchemy
Environmental certification of forests
Greener than Thou
New Challenges for Developing Country Suppliers in Global Clothing Chains
Audit Cultures
Political power beyond the State
An Essay on Framing and Overflowing
Black Economic Empowerment', Business and the State in South Africa
Introduction
Governing economic life
Governing global value chains
Performing the economy, performing science
Market technologies and the pragmatics of prices
The material production of virtuality
Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains
Turning Callon the right way up
| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |