Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
This paper develops a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literatures on global commodity chains and global production networks (GPNs), from institutional entrepreneurship, as well as from neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views GPNs as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems, in which market and political power are intertwined. The framework highlights the contingent stability of GPNs as well as the potential for actors to engage politically in contestation and collaboration over system governance and the distribution of benefits. The framework offers a multidimensional and multi-level approach to understanding power relations, ideology, and value appropriation in GPNs. The framework is valuable for examining the intersection of GPNs with charged political and social issues such as sweatshops and incomes for coffee growers, and the role of geography as a source of stability and tension in these networks. 2
Recommended Citation
Levy, David L. (2008) “Political Contestation in Global Production Networks”, Academy of Management Review 33 (4): 943-962
Publisher
Academy of Management
Rights
Copyright © 2008 Academy of Management
Comments
Post-print of article published in Academy of Management Review, October 2008, Vol. 33 Issue 4, pp. 943-962: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2008.34422006.