Global value chains and development: redefining the contours of 21st century capitalism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The global value chain (GVC) framework has taken the development policy world by storm. Since its academic origins 25 years ago, the framework has rapidly evolved into a major paradigm that is used by a wide range of international organizations, including the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. The policy appeal of the framework lies in the developmentalist angle that academic pioneers such as Gary Gereffi have provided to GVC thinking. Starting from the premise that global lead firms have the corporate power to define the terms and conditions of supply chain membership, Gereffi (among others) has focused on the consequences of the expansion of GVCs into developing countries on local firms and workers, and has studied the policies that enhance upgrading prospects. In Global Value Chains and Development, Gereffi traces back the intellectual foundations and evolution of the GVC framework through a compilation of 2 original essays and 13 of his most influential articles. The introduction, which is an original contribution, is the book’s most personal chapter. Gereffi describes the dominant perspectives on the international economy and development in the 1970s and 1980s (modernization, dependency and world-systems theory) and explains how they helped set the stage for the emergence of the GVC framework. He skillfully intertwines the discussion with his own experiences and successes as a graduate student and young scholar, decidedly showing how his interactions with international organizations were present from the start of his academic career.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.043 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.018 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".