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Overview

Mike Morris is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa and conducts research primarily within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans multiple subfields including Strategy and Management, Business and International Management, Plant Science, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as General Health Professions.

Their research focuses on a range of topics notably Global trade, sustainability, and social impact; Innovation and Socioeconomic Development; Public Procurement and Policy; Global trade and economics; Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes; Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research; and Organic Food and Agriculture.

Morris has contributed to several research papers published in notable journals. Key publications include:

  • Resilient regional food supply chains and rethinking the way forward: Key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) in Agricultural Systems
  • Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia's Apparel Sector (2020) in Development and Change
  • The effects of local content requirements in auction schemes for renewable energy in developing countries: A literature review (2020) in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Linking the energy transition and economic development: A framework for analysis of energy transitions in the global South (2022) in Energy Research & Social Science
  • Servicification of Manufacturing in Global Value Chains: Upgrading of Local Suppliers of Embedded Services in the South African Market for Wind Turbines (2021) in The Journal of Development Studies

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Morris include Ulrich Elmer Hansen, Glen Robbins, Ivan Nygaard, Victoria Shier, and Yuna H. Bae-Shaaw.

The venues where Morris has published reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their scholarship, with contributions to:

  • Agricultural Systems
  • Development and Change
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • The Journal of Development Studies

The combination of research topics, publication outlets, and coauthors suggests that Morris is engaged in the study of the intersection of global trade, sustainable development, and socioeconomic policies, with a notable focus on challenges and opportunities in developing countries.

Best Publications

  • A handbook for value chain research

    Raphael Kaplinsky;Mike Morris

  • The impact of China on sub-Saharan Africa

    Raphael Kaplinsky;Dorothy McCormick;Mike Morris

  • Chinese FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa: Engaging with Large Dragons

    Raphael Kaplinsky;Mike Morris

  • “One thing leads to another”—Commodities, linkages and industrial development

    Mike Morris;Raphael Kaplinsky;David Kaplan

  • Do the Asian drivers undermine export-oriented industrialization in SSA?

    Raphael Kaplinsky;Mike Morris

  • The globalization of product markets and immiserizing growth: lessons from the South African furniture industry

    Raphael Kaplinsky;Mike Morris;Jeffrey Readman

  • Adoption and Impacts of Improved Maize Production Technology: A Case Study of the Ghana Grains Development Project

    Michael L. Morris;Robert Tripp;A.A. Dankyi

  • Thinning and Thickening: Productive Sector Policies in The Era of Global Value Chains

    Raphael Kaplinsky;Mike Morris

  • Class struggle and the periodisation of the state in South Africa

    Robert H. Davies;David E. Kaplan;Mike Morris;Dan O'Meara

  • Value chain dynamics, local embeddedness, and upgrading in the clothing sectors of Lesotho and Swaziland

    Mike Morris;Cornelia Staritz;Justin Barnes

  • Staying alive in the global automotive industry: what can developing economies learn from South Africa about linking into global automotive value chains?

    Justin Barnes;Mike Morris

  • Regionalism, end markets and ownership matter: Shifting dynamics in the apparel export industry in Sub Saharan Africa

    Mike Morris;Leonhard Plank;Cornelia Staritz

  • Industrial policy in developing economies: developing dynamic comparative advantage in the South African automobile sector

    Justin Barnes;Raphael Kaplinsky;Mike Morris

  • Using learning networks to enable industrial development

    Mike Morris;John Bessant;Justin Barnes

  • The industrialisation challenge for Africa: Towards a commodities based industrialisation path

    Mike Morris;Judith Fessehaie

  • Industrialization Trajectories in Madagascar’s Export Apparel Industry: Ownership, Embeddedness, Markets, and Upgrading

    Mike Morris;Cornelia Staritz

  • Globalisation, Welfare and Competitiveness: The Impacts of Chinese Imports on the South African Clothing and Textile Industry

    Mike Morris;Mike Morris;Gill Einhorn

  • Developing capability through learning networks

    John Bessant;Raphael Kaplinsky;Mike Morris

  • Genetic change in farmer-recycled maize seed: A review of the evidence

    Michael L. Morris;Jean Risopoulos;David Beck

  • THE GLOBAL WOOD FURNITURE VALUE CHAIN: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries The case of South Africa

    Raphael Kaplinsky;Olga Memedovic;Mike Morris;Jeffrey Readman

  • The development of capitalism in South Africa

    Mike Morris

  • Globalization, the Changed Global Dynamics of the Clothing and Textile Value Chains and the Impact on Sub-Saharan Africa

    Mike Morris;Justin Barnes

  • Regional Development and Cluster Management: Lessons from South Africa

    Mike Morris;Justin Barnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Mauricio R. Bellon
Mauricio R. Bellon Arizona State University
David L. Kaplan
David L. Kaplan University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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