Research Interests for Gary Gereffi

Gary Gereffi's research interests deal with the competitive strategies of global firms, the governance of global value chains, economic and social upgrading, and the emerging global knowledge economy. His major ongoing research projects are:
(1) industrial upgrading, global production networks, and decent work in Asia, the Americas, Eastern Europe, and sub-Saharan AFrica;
(2 an ongoing collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and other co-sponsors on clean (low-carbon) technologies and U.S. jobs
(3) engineering outsourcing and workforce development in the United States, China, and India;
(4) a global value chain perspective on food safety and quality standards; and
(5) analyzing the competitiveness of North Carolina industries in the global economy, utilizing a value chain perspective .

Keywords:

Global Value Chains, International Competitiveness, Governance, Industrial Upgrading

Areas of Interest:

Development,
Comparative/Historical Sociology,
Economy and Society

Representative Publications

1. Joonkoo Lee, Gary Gereffi, and Janet Beauvais, Global value chains and agrifoods standards: Challenges and possibilities for smallholders in developing countries, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (December 13, 2010) (PNAS Early Edition, Dec. 13, 2010.) [pnas.0913714108] [abs]
2. Olivier Cattaneo, Gary Gereffi and Cornelia Staritz, Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: A Development Perspective (2010), Washington, DC: The World Bank [9780821384992]
3. Gary Gereffi and Michelle Christian, The Impacts of Wal-Mart: The Rise and Consequences of the World's Dominant Retailer, Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 35 no. 573-591 (2009) [annurev-soc-070308-115947]
4. Gary Gereffi, Kristen Dubay and Marcy Lowe, Manufacturing Climate Solutions: Carbon-Reducing Technologies and U.S. Jobs (2008), Duke University, Durham, NC: Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness [climatesolutions]
5. Vivek Wadhwa, Una Kim De Vitton and Gary Gereffi, How the Disciple Became the Guru: Workforce Development in India’s R&D Labs (July 23, 2008) (Report funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.) [papers.cfm]
6. The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development, ILO Social Policy Lectures. (2006), Geneva: International Institute for Labor Studies and International Labor Organization. [pdf]
7. (Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey, and Timothy Sturgeon), The Governance of Global Value Chains, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 12 no. 1 (February, 2005), pp. 78-104 [pdf]