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Industrial development in buyer-driven networks: the garment industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka

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The garment industry in Vietnam has been included in global buyer-driven networks since the 1990 s. Industrial upgrading takes place, but the changes are generally small and incremental. Profit margins tend to decline and backward linkages in the home country are few. The garment industry in Sri Lanka was included in buyer-driven networks already in the 1980 s and shares this experience. The objective is to explain what processes and mechanisms that lead to this outcome and discuss in what respects it is a result of contingencies and in what respects impediments to industrial development are inherent to buyer-driven networks. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.

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  • Hege M. Knutsen, 2004. "Industrial development in buyer-driven networks: the garment industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 4(5), pages 545-564, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jecgeo:v:4:y:2004:i:5:p:545-564
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    1. Thanh Tam Nguyen-Huu & Khac Minh Nguyen & Mai Lan Phung, 2020. "Productivity growth and job reallocation: Evidence from the garment industry in Vietnam," Post-Print hal-04248216, HAL.
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    3. Wignaraja, Ganeshan, 2008. "Foreign ownership, technological capabilities and clothing exports in Sri Lanka," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(1), pages 29-39, February.
    4. Patsy Perry & Steve Wood & John Fernie, 2015. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Garment Sourcing Networks: Factory Management Perspectives on Ethical Trade in Sri Lanka," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 130(3), pages 737-752, September.
    5. Kubny, Julia & Voss, Hinrich, 2014. "Benefitting from Chinese FDI? An assessment of vertical linkages with Vietnamese manufacturing firms," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 23(4), pages 731-740.
    6. Wignaraja, Ganeshan, 2006. "Foreign Ownership, Technological Capabilities and Exports: Evidence from 205 Clothing Firms in Sri Lanka," MERIT Working Papers 2006-032, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    7. Giorgos Galanis & Ashok Kumar, 2021. "A dynamic model of global value network governance," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(1), pages 53-72, February.
    8. Pushp, Pushkar & Ahmed, Faisal, 2023. "The global value chain: Challenges faced by ASEAN least developed countries," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 45(6), pages 1223-1245.
    9. Giorgos Galanis & Ashok Kumar, 2018. "A dynamic spatial model of global governance structures," Working Papers PKWP1804, Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES).

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