A feature of the current phase of globalization is the outsourcing of production tasks and services across borders, and the increasing organization of production and trade through global value chains (GVCs), global commodity chains (GCCs), and global production networks (GPNs). With a large and growing literature on GVCs, GCCs, and GPNs, this series is distinguished by its focus on the implications of these new production systems for economic, social, and regional development. This series publishes a wide range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical works, both research monographs and edited volumes, dealing with crucial issues of transformation in the global economy. How do GVCs change the ways in which lead and supplier firms shape regional and international economies? How do they affect local and regional development trajectories, and what implications do they have for workers and their communities? How is the organization of value chains changing and how are these emerging forms contested as more traditional structures of North–South trade complemented and transformed by emerging South–South lead firms, investments, and trading links? How does the large- scale entry of women into value- chain production impact on gender relations? What opportunities and limits do GVCs create for economic and social upgrading and innovation? In what ways are GVCs changing the nature of work and the role of labor in the global economy? And how might the increasing focus on logistics management, financialization, or social standards and compliance portend important developments in the structure of regional economies?
This series includes contributions from all disciplines and interdisciplinary fields and approaches related to GVC analysis, including GCCs and GPNs, and is particularly focused on theoretically innovative and informed works that are grounded in the empirics of development related to these approaches. Through their focus on changing organizational forms, governance systems, and production relations, volumes in this series contribute to on-going conversations about theories of development and development policy in the contemporary era of globalization.
Series editors
Stephanie Barrientos is Emeritus Professor of Global Development at the Global
Development Institute, University of Manchester.
Gary Gereffi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Global
Value Chains Center, Duke University.
Dev Nathan is Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, Delhi;
Visiting Scholar at The New School for Social Research, New York; and Research
Director at the GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation, Gurgaon.
John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Geography and
International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Jennifer Bair is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Social Sciences in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Valentina De Marchi is Associate Professor in Sustainability Management at the
Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability, ESADE Business School.
Joonkoo Lee is Associate Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Business, Hanyang University, Seoul.
Shengjun Zhu is Associate Professor in the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University.
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