Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In this contribution to the history of theory, the origins of the global value chains (GVC) paradigm are revisited. Some critics have argued that GVC research has been mainstreamed from an originally critical approach, and thus having been made fit for a neoliberal development discourse. This contribution discusses how the early GVC concept has integrated the radical traditions of the development paradigm and the world-systems analysis. It argues that the author broadly accepted as eminent for the formation of the GVC paradigm, Gary Gereffi, had introduced these traditions into a mainstream development discourse. In this process, these traditions have been operationalized and formalized in a way that seems to run counter to their intentions.
Source: Globalizations
Author: Rudy Weissenbacher
Institution: Vienna University of Economics and Business
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Oesterreichische Nationalbank
OpenAlex ID: W4402298635