Industrial development in buyer-driven networks: the garment industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka

Industrial development in buyer-driven networks: the garment industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka

The garment industry in Vietnam has been included in global buyer-driven networks since the 1990s. Industrial upgrading takes place, but the changes are generally small and incremental. Profit margins tend to decline and backward linkages in the home country are few. The garment industry in Sri Lank...

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Published in:Journal of economic geography Vol. 4; no. 5; pp. 545 - 564
Main Author: Knutsen, Hege M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01-11-2004
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
Subjects:
Business orders
Central banks
Clothing industry
Commodities
Economic growth
Economic rent
Industrial development
Industrial market
Labor unions
Manufacturers
Manufacturing industries
Money markets
Profit margins
Studies
Textile industry
Sri Lanka
Vietnam
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Summary:The garment industry in Vietnam has been included in global buyer-driven networks since the 1990s. Industrial upgrading takes place, but the changes are generally small and incremental. Profit margins tend to decline and backward linkages in the home country are few. The garment industry in Sri Lanka was included in buyer-driven networks already in the 1980s and shares this experience. The objective is to explain what processes and mechanisms that lead to this outcome and discuss in what respects it is a result of contingencies and in what respects impediments to industrial development are inherent to buyer-driven networks.
ISSN:1468-2702
1468-2710
DOI:10.1093/jnlecg/lbh032