Gary Gereffi, Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	264 Soc-Psych
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5611/660-5614
Email Address:

Education:

• Ph.D. Yale University 1980
• M.A. & M.Phil. Yale University 1974
• B.A. University of Notre Dame 1970

Research Interests:

Gary Gereffi's research interests deal with social and environmental certification in global industries, the competitive strategies of global firms, and industrial upgrading in East Asia and Latin America. His three major ongoing research projects are: (1) industrial upgrading in East Asia, North America, and Eastern Europe/Central Asia; (2) a comparative analysis of global restructuring in the apparel, automotive, computer, and retail sectors; and (3) a study of the emergence of public and private governance systems in the Americas. Currently, Gereffi is writing a book on global value chains and industrial upgrading.

Areas of Interest:

Development,
Comparative/Historical Sociology,
Economy and Society

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Gary Gereffi, Kristen Dubay and Marcy Lowe, Manufacturing Climate Solutions: Carbon-Reducing Technologies and U.S. Jobs (2008), Duke University [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..) .