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Technological Capabilities, Upgrading, and Value Capture in Global Value Chains: Local Apparel and Floriculture Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Economic Geography ( IF 7.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 , DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2020.1748497
Lindsay Whitfield 1 , Cornelia Staritz 2 , Ayelech T. Melese 1 , Sameer Azizi 1
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abstract Many local firms in sub-Saharan African countries are failing to enter and upgrade in new manufacturing and agribusiness export sectors. This article argues that we need to look more closely at the costly, risky, and uncertain firm-level processes of building capabilities in order to understand this challenge. However, local firm agency is constrained and has to be situated in asymmetric structures that are determined by transnational interfirm relations in global value chains (GVCs) as well as the country and region in which local firms are embedded. The article presents a new framework for researching how firms build capabilities in GVCs, and demonstrates how it can be applied using the cases of apparel and floriculture export sectors in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Madagascar. The cases show that firms build specific capabilities linked to export strategies, leading to uneven capability-building, specific upgrading paths, and value capture trajectories. Variations in local firms’ export strategies and success with those strategies are explained by differences in the financial capital, tacit knowledge, and social networks that they can leverage in building capabilities. The nature and extent of these intrafirm resources, especially in the early period of export industry development, are shaped by shared networks between local and foreign supplier firms, regional proximity to existing supplier countries, strategic interests of global buyers, and government industrial policy.

中文翻译:

全球价值链中的技术能力、升级和价值获取:撒哈拉以南非洲的当地服装和花卉企业

摘要 撒哈拉以南非洲国家的许多当地公司未能进入和升级新的制造业和农业综合企业出口部门。本文认为,为了理解这一挑战,我们需要更仔细地研究成本高昂、风险高且不确定的公司级能力建设过程。然而,本地公司代理受到限制,必须位于不对称结构中,这些结构由全球价值链 (GVC) 中的跨国公司间关系以及本地公司所在的国家和地区决定。本文提出了一个研究企业如何在全球价值链中建立能力的新框架,并通过埃塞俄比亚、肯尼亚和马达加斯加的服装和花卉出口部门的案例展示了如何应用该框架。这些案例表明,企业建立与出口战略相关的特定能力,导致能力建设、特定升级路径和价值获取轨迹不平衡。当地企业出口战略的差异以及这些战略的成功可以通过金融资本、隐性知识和社会网络的差异来解释,它们可以在能力建设中加以利用。这些企业内部资源的性质和范围,特别是在出口行业发展的早期,是由本地和外国供应商公司之间的共享网络、与现有供应商国家的区域邻近性、全球买家的战略利益以及政府产业政策所塑造的。当地企业出口战略的差异以及这些战略的成功可以通过金融资本、隐性知识和社会网络的差异来解释,它们可以在能力建设中加以利用。这些企业内部资源的性质和范围,特别是在出口行业发展的早期,是由本地和外国供应商公司之间的共享网络、与现有供应商国家的区域邻近性、全球买家的战略利益以及政府产业政策所塑造的。当地企业出口战略的差异以及这些战略的成功可以通过金融资本、隐性知识和社会网络的差异来解释,它们可以在能力建设中加以利用。这些企业内部资源的性质和范围,特别是在出口行业发展的早期,是由本地和外国供应商公司之间的共享网络、与现有供应商国家的区域邻近性、全球买家的战略利益以及政府产业政策所塑造的。
更新日期:2020-05-20
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