Embeddedness beyond the lead firm in global production networks: Insights from Kenyan horticulture

IF 4.6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-04-25 DOI:10.1177/0308518x231170194

Aarti Krishnan

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Abstract

Recent research on embeddedness in global production networks (GPNs) has begun to move beyond the dominant perspective on how lead firms embed into host countries to investigate how non-lead firms embed across multiple scales in a GPN. This paper builds on such work by examining both processes of how, and the extent to which, different Southern suppliers embed into GPNs, detailing the contestation, struggles, and synergies faced. Empirical evidence is provided through a case study of Kenyan horticulture. Using a mixed-method approach of interviews and surveys, the paper finds that Kenyan farmers and Kenyan export firms (KEFs) have varied ways in which they embed, with farmers more embedded (highly dependent on network relationships and participation in a GPN) and KEFs simultaneously less embedded (having a low degree of commitment towards farmers) in GPNs. Overarchingly, the results demonstrate the need to account for the complex ways in which non-lead firm actors like Southern suppliers embed in GPNs.

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在全球生产网络中超越领先公司的嵌入性:来自肯尼亚园艺学的见解

最近关于全球生产网络(GPNs)嵌入性的研究已经开始超越主导企业如何嵌入东道国的观点，开始研究非主导企业如何跨多个尺度嵌入全球生产网络。本文以这些工作为基础，研究了不同的南方供应商如何以及在多大程度上融入GPNs的两个过程，详细介绍了所面临的竞争、斗争和协同效应。通过对肯尼亚园艺的案例研究提供了经验证据。使用访谈和调查的混合方法，本文发现肯尼亚农民和肯尼亚出口公司(kef)有不同的嵌入方式，农民更嵌入(高度依赖网络关系和参与GPN)， kef同时更不嵌入(对农民的承诺程度较低)GPN。总体而言，研究结果表明，需要考虑南方供应商等非主导企业参与者嵌入GPNs的复杂方式。

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期刊介绍： Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space is a pluralist and heterodox journal of economic research, principally concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development. International in outlook and interdisciplinary in spirit, the journal is positioned at the forefront of theoretical and methodological innovation, welcoming substantive and empirical contributions that probe and problematize significant issues of economic, social, and political concern, especially where these advance new approaches. The horizons of Economy and Space are wide, but themes of recurrent concern for the journal include: global production and consumption networks; urban policy and politics; race, gender, and class; economies of technology, information and knowledge; money, banking, and finance; migration and mobility; resource production and distribution; and land, housing, labor, and commodity markets. To these ends, Economy and Space values a diverse array of theories, methods, and approaches, especially where these engage with research traditions, evolving debates, and new directions in urban and regional studies, in human geography, and in allied fields such as socioeconomics and the various traditions of political economy.

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