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Gary Gereffi is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of global trade, sustainability, social impact, innovation, socioeconomic development, and international business. Their work span key fields such as Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Gereffi's main subfields of study include Strategy and Management, Business and International Management, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Political Science and International Relations, and Economics and Econometrics. The scientist's research addresses topics like global trade and economics, sustainable supply chain management, digital economy and work transformation, and international labor and employment law.

Recent publications highlight the following works:

  • What does the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about global value chains? The case of medical supplies (2020) - Journal of International Business Policy
  • Trade policies, firm strategies, and adaptive reconfigurations of global value chains (2021) - Journal of International Business Policy
  • Resilience Decoded: The Role of Firms, Global Value Chains, and the State in COVID-19 Medical Supplies (2022) - California Management Review
  • An integrative typology of global strategy and global value chains: The management and organization of cross-border activities (2020) - Global Strategy Journal
  • Innovation, upgrading, and governance in cross-sectoral global value chains: the case of smartphones (2020) - Industrial and Corporate Change

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gary Gereffi include:

  • Pavida Pananond
  • Anne Caroline Posthuma
  • Arianna Rossi
  • Joonkoo Lee
  • Torben Pedersen

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Journal of International Business Policy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • California Management Review
  • Global Strategy Journal
  • Industrial and Corporate Change

Best Publications

  • The governance of global value chains

    Gary Gereffi;John Humphrey;Timothy J. Sturgeon

  • International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain

    Gary Gereffi

  • The Organization of Buyer-Driven Global Commodity Chains: How U.S. Retailers Shape Overseas Production Networks.

    Gary Gereffi

  • Commodity chains and global capitalism

    Gary Gereffi;Miguel Korzeniewicz

  • Introduction: Globalisation, Value Chains and Development

    Gary Gereffi;John Humphrey;Raphael Kaplinsky;Timothy J. Sturgeon

  • Global value chains in a post-Washington Consensus world

    Gary Gereffi

  • Economic and social upgrading in global production networks: A new paradigm for a changing world

    Stephanie Barrientos;Gary Gereffi;Arianna Rossi

  • Value chains, networks and clusters: reframing the global automotive industry

    Timothy J. Sturgeon;Johannes Van Biesebroeck;Gary Gereffi

  • GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS: A PRIMER

    Gary Gereffi;Karina Fernandez-Stark

  • Local Clusters in Global Chains: The Causes and Consequences of Export Dynamism in Torreon's Blue Jeans Industry

    Jennifer Bair;Gary Gereffi

  • Global Commodity Chains: New Forms of Coordination and Control Among Nations and Firms in International Industries.

    Gary Gereffi

  • Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters: Why Governance Matters

    Gary Gereffi;Joonkoo Lee

  • Why the World Suddenly Cares About Global Supply Chains

    Gary Gereffi;Joonkoo Lee

  • Global production systems and third world development

    Gary Gereffi

  • The NGO-Industrial Complex

    Gary Gereffi;Ronie Garcia-Johnson;Erika Sasser

  • The global apparel value chain, trade and the crisis : challenges and opportunities for developing countries

    Gary Gereffi;Stacey Frederick

  • Global value chains and agrifood standards: Challenges and possibilities for smallholders in developing countries

    Joonkoo Lee;Gary Gereffi;Janet Beauvais

  • Joining, upgrading and being competitive in global value chains: a strategic framework

    O. Cattaneo;G. Gereffi;Sebastien Miroudot;Daria Taglioni

  • What does the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about global value chains? The case of medical supplies

    Gary Gereffi

  • Shifting Governance Structures in Global Commodity Chains, With Special Reference to the Internet:

    Gary Gereffi

  • Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: A Development Perspective

    Olivier Cattaneo;Gary Gereffi;Cornelia Staritz

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephanie Barrientos
Stephanie Barrientos University of Manchester
Guillermina Jasso
Guillermina Jasso New York University
John Humphrey
John Humphrey University of Sussex
Stefano Ponte
Stefano Ponte Copenhagen Business School
John M. Anderies
John M. Anderies Arizona State University
Lincoln F. Pratson
Lincoln F. Pratson Duke University
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol

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