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South–North and South–South production networks: diverging socio-spatial practices of Indian pharmaceutical firms

Mai 16, 2017, 7:45 a.m., RORY HORNER, JAMES T. MURPHY, Allgemein.

Abstract

We know less about the structures and processes associated with South–South production networks than about those with a South–North orientation. Using an inductive approach, in this article we explore these differences by analysing the everyday practices that Indian pharmaceutical firms employ to meet production and quality standards, access markets and innovate. We use extensive primary interview evidence to demonstrate that Indian pharmaceutical firms employ different business practices towards Northern and Southern end markets. Our findings reveal the presence of significant discontinuities within the Indian pharmaceutical industry. They also demonstrate how a practice-oriented approach to the study of GPNs can help to identify some of the micro social processes through which governance is achieved and transformed over time, and divergences in value creation, enhancement and capture trajectories between Southern and Northern end markets.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12159

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In between leaving and being left behind: mediating the mobilities and immobilities of Indonesian non-migrants

Mai 16, 2017, 7:45 a.m., CAROL CHAN, Allgemein.

Abstract

In this article, I consider how and why some non-migrants partially inhabit migrant subjectivities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Central Java, Indonesia, I describe the experiences of those who embarked on pre-departure migration processes, but failed to leave the country. Men were often victims of fraud; women typically ran away from the confines of training centres. When redirected away from the border spaces of airports and recruitment centres, they typically identify themselves and are perceived by kin and neighbours as ‘former’ transnational migrants. I analyse how migration infrastructure – intersecting institutions, agents and technologies – produces such subjectivities in-between conventional migrant and non-migrant categories. These positions in between leaving and staying illuminate the infrastructural conditions that enable, constrain and mediate transnational mobilities. These cases of non-departure show the expansive social and spatial effects of migration infrastructure beyond the facilitation of transnational movement. Such less considered (im)mobilities of non-migrants point to the diverse ways in which migration institutions and agents mediate the circulation of persons between and within national borders.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12161

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A great leap? Domestic market growth and local state support in the upgrading of China’s LED lighting industry

Mai 16, 2017, 7:45 a.m., FLORIAN BUTOLLO, TOBIAS TEN BRINK, Allgemein.

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In this article we analyse the conditions for industrial upgrading in the Chinese LED industry, which proactive local state policies and expanding domestic markets have greatly facilitated. State initiatives provoked overinvestment, but eventually led to the emergence of competitive domestic enterprises. Simultaneously, firms benefited from a growing domestic market on which they outcompeted foreign companies in mid-price segments. The combination of these factors accounts for the peculiarly Chinese upgrading experience. Neither the resources provided by a new version of the ‘developmental state’ nor domestic market growth alone can explain the Chinese players' success. Based on these results, and given that the emerging economies have become the most important markets for certain consumer goods – a development that (local) industrial policies for industrial upgrading can influence – we provide further proof that it is necessary to rethink the export-led upgrading paradigm in theories of globally dispersed production.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2Fglob.12160

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