Christel Lane, Jocelyn Probert

National Capitalisms, Global Production Networks (eBook, PDF)

Fashioning the Value Chain in the UK, US, and Germany

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Firms in the clothing industry engage in global sourcing and operate in global markets. This book analyses the way British, American and German firms in the clothing industry (manufacturing and retail) co-ordinate and govern their global production networks/value chains.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191568763
• Artikelnr.: 38134727

Autorenporträt

Christel Lane is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Research Associate of the Centre for Business Research, and a Fellow of St. John's College. She has a strong record of publication of comparative industry studies which bridge the social sciences and the field of management. She has contributed to the theoretical study of inter-firm relations, particularly of trust between organizations, as well as to the field of comparative capitalisms/varieties of capitalism. Jocelyn Probert is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. Prior to returning to academic life she worked in Japan as an investment banker and in France as a researcher at the Euro-Asia Centre of INSEAD business school. Her research interests lie in organizational innovations and international business networks.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Theoretical frameworks: the Varieties of Capitalism approach and the
Global Value Chains / Global Production Networks framework
* The clothing industry in the US, UK and Germany
* Fashion Retail
* Global and Regional Institutions and the Regulation of Trade
* Shifting Global Networks and the Development of a New International
Hierarchy of Firms and Supplier Countries
* The Global Production Networks of US, UK, and German firms
* The Clothing Industries in Supplier Countries: Buyer-Supplier
Relations
* The Regulation of Labour Standards/Rights in Supplier Countries: The
Role of Firms, Nation States and International Organizations
* Conclusions