Economic and social upgrading in global production networks: A new paradigm for a changing world

S Barrientos, G Gereffi, A Rossi - International Labour Review, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A key challenge in promoting decent work worldwide is how to improve the position of both
firms and workers in value chains and global production networks driven by lead firms. This …

Does economic upgrading lead to social upgrading in global production networks? Evidence from Morocco

A Rossi - World Development, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper contributes to the global production networks (GPNs) literature by analyzing the
relationship between economic upgrading (increase in the value added of production) and …

Corporate social responsibility in garment sourcing networks: Factory management perspectives on ethical trade in Sri Lanka

P Perry, S Wood, J Fernie - Journal of Business Ethics, 2015 - Springer
With complex buyer-driven global production networks and a labour-intensive
manufacturing process, the fashion industry has become a focal point for debates on the …

Precarization of work and employment in the light of competitive Europeanization and the fragmented and flexible regime of European production

S Hürtgen - Capital & Class, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In current debates on precarization in Europe, a transnational and more class-based
perspective is demanded. While fully supporting this request, this article nevertheless …

Geographies of production I: global production and uneven development

M Werner - Progress in Human Geography, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Serial crises in the global economy have spurred renewed debate over contemporary
transformations in geographies of uneven development. Global production network (GPN) …

Toward a better understanding of the apparel industry: a critique of the upgrading literature

N Tokatli - Journal of Economic Geography, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In this article, based on a critical reading of the literature, as well as recent data that I have
obtained by revisiting a number of Turkish firms whose original case studies were published …

Global production networks and uneven development: Exploring geographies of devaluation, disinvestment, and exclusion

M Werner - Geography Compass, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines global production networks through the lens of uneven development.
Although originally concerned with asymmetries in the global economy, in the 1990s, global …

[BOOK][B] Articulations of capital: global production networks and regional transformations

J Pickles, A Smith - 2015 - books.google.com
Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated
account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional …

Improving social responsibility in RMG industries through a new governance approach in laws

MM Rahim - Journal of Business Ethics, 2017 - Springer
Develo** countries need to reform legislation to ensure the global supply firms in ready-
made garment (RMG) industry is adequately addressing obligations of social responsibility …

Feminization, defeminization, and structural change in manufacturing

D Kucera, S Tejani - World Development, 2014 - Elsevier
The paper uses accounting decomposition methods to analyze changes in female shares of
manufacturing employment for 36 countries at different levels of development from 1981 to …