全球价值链的治理【外文翻译】.doc

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外文题目: The governance of global value chains
出处: Review of International Political Economy
作者: Gary Gereffi and John Humphrey
Abstract This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature – transaction costs economics, works, and technological capability and firm - level learning – to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chains are governed and change. These are: (1) plexity of transactions, (2) the ability to codify transactions, and (3) the capabilities in the supply – base. The theory generates five types of global value chain governance – hierarchy, captive, relational, modular, and market – which range from high to low levels of explicit coordination and power asymmetry.
Keywords Global value chains works Transaction cost
Value chain modularity
The world economy has changed in significant ways during the past several decades, especially in the areas of international trade and anization. Two of the most important new features of the contemporary economy are the globalization of production and trade, which have fueled the growth of industrial capabilities in a wide range of developing countries, and the vertical disintegration of transnational corporations, which are redefining their petencies to focus on innovation and product strategy, marketing, and the highest value – added segments of manufacturing and services, while reducing their direct ownership over ‘non – core’ functions such as generic services and volume production. Together, these two shifts have laid the groundwork for a variety work forms of governance situated between arm’s length markets, on the one hand, and large vertically integrated corporations, on the other. The purpose of this article is to generate a theoretical framework for better understanding the shifting governance structures in sectors producing for global markets, structures we