Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202657 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Birmingham Business School Discussion Paper Series No. 2013-14
Publisher: 
University of Birmingham, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham
Abstract: 
Global value chain (GVC) analysis (e.g. Gereffi, 1994) has been developed to understand the potential for developing countries and companies to upgrade production processes and capture value. Theoretically pluralist, it provides a methodological framework for posing research questions about the nature of globalisation. For Industrial Relations scholars it raises questions about the role of lead companies in setting standards amongst suppliers in the value chain, the influence of private labour codes and standards, Corporate Social Responsibility policies, forms of supranational regulation, and the role of civic society organisations in pressing for labour standards. New research questions are raised which require looking beyond the traditional components of the Industrial Relations system - the state, employers and unions - requiring inter-disciplinary engagement with debates in Development Studies and Economic Geography, and with researchers from the 'global South'.
Subjects: 
Global value chain analysis
labour regulation
public and private standards
Industrial Relations research
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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