Global Value Chains and Uneven Development | Corporate Strategies and Class Dynamics in Argentinian Agribusiness

Christin Bernhold

ISBN 10: 3593516373 / ISBN 13: 9783593516370

Edité par Campus Verlag, 2022

Global Value Chains and Uneven Development | Corporate Strategies and Class Dynamics in Argentinian Agribusiness | Christin Bernhold | Taschenbuch | Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur | 479 S. | Englisch | 2022 | Campus Verlag | EAN 9783593516370 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Beltz Verlagsgruppe GmbH & Co. KG, Werderstr. 10, 69469 Weinheim, info[at]campus[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. N° de réf. du vendeur 121445582

Synopsis :

An empirical examination of the development pitfalls involving global value chains.

Are global value chains (GVCs) opportunity structures for economic upgrading, job creation, and poverty reduction? At least, this is what institutions like the World Bank suggest. However, the present book shows that this is not a tenable position--either on empirical or theoretical grounds. The study is conceived as an empirical ideology critique of the mainstream GVC approach, especially of its focus on upgrading as a development strategy. It is based on in-depth empirical research into upgrading strategies in Argentinian grain and oilseed value chains and their ramifications. Here, corporate actors organized along agribusiness value chains have demonstrated fairly successful trajectories of firm-level upgrading and, at the same time, employed the chain metaphor from the standpoint of specific business interests rather than a general development interest. Christin Bernhold devised the concept of "upgrading in and through class differentiation" to show how firm-level upgrading is based on, and at the same time re-shapes, class and power relations--shaping the uneven geographies of capitalism rather than eliminating them.

À propos de l'auteur: Christin Bernhold is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg.

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Titre : Global Value Chains and Uneven Development |...
Éditeur : Campus Verlag
Date d'édition : 2022
Reliure : Taschenbuch
Etat : Neu