Business School Building, Frenchay Campus
Room: 2X242
7 Dec 2017 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Georgos Galanis
This paper presents a novel understanding of the changing dynamics between supplier and producer driven Global Value Chains (GVC). Motivated by the global garment sector, we develop a dynamic model which captures the interaction between bargaining power and distribution of value among lead and supply firms in the GVC.
We find that the interplay between these two forces, in combination with their spatial specificities are sufficient to make a GVC oscillate between buyer and supplier driven characteristics.
We show that if we incorporate the different effects of consolidation, the GVC moves towards an intermediate case within the buyer/ supplier spectrum.