In this article we examine the developmental consequences of globalization at multiple
scales, using a commodity chains framework to investigate the case of the North American …

This paper uses a comparative case study approach to explore the inter-organizational
dynamics of the Mexican apparel industry's post-NAFTA export dynamism, and assesses the …

Using a case study of the export-oriented blue jeans industry in Torreon, Mexico, the authors
discuss the role of US buyers in promoting full-package apparel production. While the …

Mexico's garment exports to the United States soared in the mid-1990s, and recently
Honduras has become one of the fastest-growing exporters in the Americas. We find little …

This article uses the global value chain approach to analyse the upgrading trajectories of
leading apparel exporters adapting to the end of textile and apparel quotas and the …

The article uses the global commodity chains framework to explain the transformations in
production, trade and corporate strategies that altered the global apparel industry over the …

This article uses a global commodity chains perspective to analyze the social and
organizational dimensions of international trade networks. In linking international trade and …

The processes of globalization and trade regionalization are creating new forms of regional
concentration of economic activities both within and across sovereign borders. The passage …

The enhanced integration of production across geopolitical boundaries since the 1970s
highlights the restructuring endemic to many industries in high-wage economies of the West …

Although it is generally accepted that the clothing industry played a leading role in East
Asia's early export growth, the degree to which international trade can be the basis of …