Industrialization Trajectories in Madagascar’s Export Apparel Industry: Ownership, Embeddedness, Markets, and Upgrading

The paper shows the importance of ownership as a conceptual category within global value chain (GVC) analysis through analyzing firm types based on their GVC linkage, market access, and ownership profile in Madagascar’s apparel export industry. The central argument is that ownership leading to varia...

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Published inWorld development Vol. 56; pp. 243 - 257
Main Authors Morris, Mike, Staritz, Cornelia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2014
Pergamon Press Inc
Subjects
AGOA
apparel
Business ownership
Clothing industry
embeddedness
Exclusion
Exports
global value chains
Industrial development
Madagascar
ownership
Studies
upgrading
Value chain
Madagascar
global value chains
upgrading
ownership
AGOA
embeddedness
apparel
Madagascar
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Summary:The paper shows the importance of ownership as a conceptual category within global value chain (GVC) analysis through analyzing firm types based on their GVC linkage, market access, and ownership profile in Madagascar’s apparel export industry. The central argument is that ownership leading to variances in embeddedness matters. Ownership characteristics of supplier firms shape the ability to shift between different end markets, respond to lead firm requirements, and pursue upgrading. With Madagascar’s exclusion from AGOA benefits this has enabled locally embedded European/French diaspora-owned firms and regionally embedded Mauritian-owned firms to shift market channels and upgrade while Asian-owned firms largely exited the industry.
ISSN:0305-750X
1873-5991
DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.030