Handbook on global value chains

Providing critical insight into the globalization of product conception, production, marketing and distribution, this Handbook comprehensively explores the functioning of global value chains (GVCs) and how they shape the global economy. It provides theoretical, analytical and empirically based policy-relevant tools to understand international production and trade in the modern global economy.Written by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this Handbook offers expert guidance on GVC analysis and the relationship between GVCs and governance, power relations, gender, upgrading and international development. The contributors also provide insight into strategy, innovation and learning, highlighting the dynamism and resilience of GVCs, and critically reflect on how GVCs affect inequality and the nature of work and production.Comprising empirically rich and innovative research, this Handbook will be critical reading for advanced undergraduate and master's level students interested in international business, global industries, sustainable development and the governance of global production systems. Academics researching and teaching in these fields will also benefit from this book's broad and comprehensive approach to GVC analysis.

I MAPPING, MEASURING AND ANALYSING GVCs -- 1. Global value chain mapping / Stacey Frederick -- 2. Global value chain analysis: a primer (second edition) / Gary Gereffi -- 3. Measuring global value chains / Timothy J. Sturgeon -- 4. Global value chains and quantitative macro-comparative sociology / Matthew C. Mahutga -- 5. Modeling global value chains: approaches and insights from economics / Davin Chor -- pt. II GOVERNANCE, POWER AND INEQUALITY -- 6. Governance and power in global value chains / Mark P. Dallas -- 7. Governance and upgrading in global cultural and creative value chains / Minjung Lee -- 8. Rents and inequality in global value chains / Raphael Kaplinsky -- 9. On value in value chains / John Pickles -- 10. Global value chains and uneven development: a disarticulations perspective / Jennifer Bair -- 11. Contestation and activism in global value chains / Florence Palpacuer -- 12. Bringing the environment into GVC analysis: antecedents and advances / Elizabeth Havice -- 13. Sustainability, global value chains and green capital accumulation / Stefano Ponte -- pt. III THE MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF GVC UPGRADING -- 14. Economic upgrading in global value chains / Gary Gereffi -…