Gary Gereffi

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build a theoretical framework to explain governance patterns in global value chains and draw on three streams of literature, transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning, to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chain are governed and change.

TL;DR: In this article, a global commodity chains perspective is used to analyze the social and organizational dimensions of international trade networks, with an emphasis on the apparel industry, and the mechanisms by which organizational learning occurs in trade networks.

TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction is made between producer-driven and buyer-driven commodity chains, which represent alternative modes of organizing international industries, and the locational patterns of global sourcing in apparel are charted, with an emphasis on the production frontiers favored by different kinds of US buyers.

TL;DR: Gereffi et al. as discussed by the authors studied the historical and spatial patterns of Commodity Chains in the world-system prior to 1800 and concluded that the global distribution of commodity chains is a global distribution.

TL;DR: A growing body of work analyses globalisation processes from the perspective of "value chains" as mentioned in this paper, that is, international trade in goods and services should not be seen solely, or even mainly, as a multitude of arm's-length market-based transactions but rather as systems of governance involving multinational enterprises that link firms together in a variety of sourcing and contracting arrangements.