People :: Sociology Department

Gary Gereffi, Professor

Gary Gereffi

Short Description of Research Approach:

Professor

Office Info
Office:	264 Soc-Psych
Phone:	(919) 660-5611/660-5614
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Fax:	(919) 660-5623
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Areas of Interest:

Development,
Comparative/Historical Sociology,
Economy and Society

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 .

Selected Publications/Recent Research:

Representative Publications (More Publications)

2010 Global value chains and agrifoods standards: Challenges and possibilities for smallholders in developing countries Joonkoo Lee, Gary Gereffi, and Janet Beauvais. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ,December 13, 2010.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0913714108 [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/ggere/publications/185729]

2010 Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: A Development Perspective Olivier Cattaneo, Gary Gereffi and Cornelia Staritz. Washington, DC: The World Bank
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/content/book/9780821384992

2009 The Impacts of Wal-Mart: The Rise and Consequences of the World's Dominant Retailer Gary Gereffi and Michelle Christian. Annual Review of Sociology , Vol. 35, No. 573-591,2009.
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/eprint/QgubyPpNw6NT3uzIf5r2/full/10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115947

2008 Manufacturing Climate Solutions: Carbon-Reducing Technologies and U.S. Jobs Gary Gereffi, Kristen Dubay and Marcy Lowe. Durham, NC: Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness Duke University
http://www.cggc.duke.edu/environment/climatesolutions

2008 How the Disciple Became the Guru: Workforce Development in India’s R&D Labs Vivek Wadhwa, Una Kim De Vitton and Gary Gereffi. ,July 23, 2008.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1170049

2006 The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development , ILO Social Policy Lectures. Geneva: International Institute for Labor Studies and International Labor Organization.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/newoff.pdf

2005 The Governance of Global Value Chains (Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey, and Timothy Sturgeon). Review of International Political Economy , Vol. 12, No. 1,February, 2005. , 78-104
http://www.soc.duke.edu/resources/GVCs_RIPE.pdf

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Course Descriptions:

Duke University. Spring & Fall 2012

Organizations and Global Competitiveness(SOC 142) Syllabus
Globalization and Development(Soc 730S-03) Syllabus

Sociology
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