When value chains go South: Upgrading in the Kenyan leather sector
When value chains go South: Upgrading in the Kenyan leather sector
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当价值链南移时：肯尼亚皮革行业的升级
DOI：
10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101161
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
Giovanni Pasquali
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作者：
Giovanni Pasquali
南南价值链已发展成为全球贸易组织的核心作用，但人们对这一现象如何影响供应商升级前景知之甚少。本文从理论上论证了南北和南南价值链的联系是否以及如何不同地影响供应商交付产品质量和增值任务，以及它们随着时间的推移而得到改进（分别定义为产品和功能升级）。为了从经验上评估这个问题，我们结合了肯尼亚皮革行业的企业级出口数据和访谈。结果表明，向北方出口的产品质量和增值任务高于向南方出口的产品质量和增值任务，但向两个总体目的地出口的产品和功能升级没有系统性差异。然而，深入挖掘，我们发现南方目的地的结果存在显著差异。一方面，与南北价值链相比，中国主导的价值链呈现出相似的产品质量和更陡峭的功能升级。另一方面，非洲内部价值链成为小供应商专门从事高附加值任务的平台。这些发现有助于对全球价值链和全球工厂的研究，增强了我们对参与价值链的供应商的影响的理解，这些供应商具有不同的产品标准和消费者偏好。
South-South value chains have grown to play a central role in the organisation of global trade, yet little is known about how this phenomenon affects suppliers’ upgrading prospects. This article theorises whether and how links to North-South and South-South value chains differently affect suppliers’ delivery of product quality and value-added tasks, as well as their improvement over time (respectively defined asproductandfunctional upgrading). To empirically evaluate this question, we draw on a combination of firm-level export data and interviews across the Kenyan leather sector. Results show that product quality and value-added tasks are higher for exports to the North than to the South, but that there is no systematic difference in product and functional upgrading to the two aggregate destinations. Digging deeper, however, we show significant variation in outcomes across Southern destinations. On the one hand, China-led value chains present similar product quality and steeper functional upgrading than North-South value chains. On the other hand, intra-Africa value chains emerge as platforms for small suppliers to specialize in higher value-added tasks. These findings contribute to scholarship on global value chains and the global factory, enhancing our understanding of the implications for suppliers participating in value chains with different product standards and consumer preferences.