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 East Asia, North America, and Eastern Europe;
(2) analyzing the competitiveness of North Carolina industries in the global economy, utilizing a value chain perspective ;
(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) an ongoing collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and other co-sponsors on clean (low-carbon) technologies and U.S. jobs.

Areas of Interest:

Development,
Comparative/Historical Sociology,
Economy and Society

Representative Publications

1. 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]
2. 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]
3. The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development, ILO Social Policy Lectures. (2006), Geneva: International Institute for Labor Studies and International Labor Organization. [htm]
4. (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 [2005.pdf]
5. Gereffi, Gary, David Spener and Jennifer Bair, Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA (2002), Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
6. (Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz, co-editors), Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (1994), Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (hardcover) and Praeger (paperback)
7. (Gary Gereffi and Donald L. Wyman, co-editors), Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia (1990), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (Translated with a new Preface for the Chinese edition: Shanghai Far East Publishers, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, 1996..)