The contest for value in global value chains: Correcting for distorted distribution in the global apparel industry

作者：C. Blome, Stephan Manning, M. Schleper · 发表于：Journal of International Business Studies · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1057/s41267-022-00541-7 · 被引用次数：4

Journal of International Business Studies (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00541-7 In their book The Contest for Value in Global Value Chains, Lilac Nachum and Yoshiteru Uramoto ask one of the most important – and unanswered – questions in international business and supply chain research: Who appropriates the value created in global value chains (GVCs) and why? The authors examine this question by focusing on the global apparel supply chain and on Bangladesh as the producing country. The book stands out by providing a holistic analysis of GVCs, from labor to manufacturers, buyers, and consumers. It paves the way for a more systemic understanding of value creation and appropriation in GVCs with critical implications for research, practice, and policy-making. According to Nachum and Uramoto, research has increasingly shown that there is a misalignment between value creation and value appropriation (also referred to as ‘‘value capture’’) in GVCs. The authors define value creation as the net value added to a supply chain by each participant (measured as sales – purchases), whereas value appropriation is defined as the share of gains of total value created by a supply chain (measured as total income – total costs). Value creation is thus mainly linked to productive capabilities in collaborative processes ‘‘driven by a common goal shared by the participants’’ (p. 15). It requires high levels of reciprocal interdependencies, and it can be described as a win–win scenario fo...