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World Ranking
5850
National Ranking
963

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Stephanie Barrientos is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these areas, they focus on subfields including Strategy and Management, Plant Science, Business and International Management, Public Administration, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics covered in their work reflect a diverse engagement with issues related to global trade, sustainability, and social impact; organic food and agriculture; innovation and socioeconomic development; labor movements and unions; international labor and employment law; and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including on air quality.

Stephanie Barrientos has published research in a range of academic venues, including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), World Development, Geoforum, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, and the Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society.

Their recent publications include:

  • "COVID-19 and the case for global development," 2020, published in World Development
  • "Fairtrade and beyond: Shifting dynamics in cocoa sustainability production networks," 2021, published in Geoforum
  • "Southern actors and the governance of labour standards in global production networks: The case of South African fruit and wine," 2021, published in Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • "Regional value chains in the Global South: governance implications for producers and workers?," 2022, published in Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • "Global value chains and gender: opportunities and challenges for women workers in developing economies," 2023, published in Papeles de Europa

Frequent collaborators in their research include Matthew Alford, Khalid Nadvi, Giovanni Pasquali, Johan A. Oldekop, and Rory Horner. These partnerships have contributed to multiple co-authored works, reflecting collaborative approaches within their fields of study.

Best Publications

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

    Stephanie Barrientos;Gary Gereffi;Arianna Rossi

  • Do workers benefit from ethical trade? Assessing codes of labour practice in global production systems

    Stephanie Barrientos;Sally Smith

  • A Gendered Value Chain Approach to Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture

    Stephanie Barrientos;Catherine Dolan;Anne Tallontire

  • ‘Labour Chains’: Analysing the role of labour contractors in global production networks

    Stephanie Ware Barrientos

  • Squaring the circle: global production and the informalization of work in South African fruit exports

    Stephanie Barrientos;Andrienetta Kritzinger

  • COVID-19 and the case for global development

    Johan A. Oldekop;Rory Horner;David Hulme;Roshan Adhikari

  • Contract Labour: The ‘Achilles Heel’ of Corporate Codes in Commercial Value Chains

    Stephanie Barrientos

  • Corporate purchasing practices in global production networks: A socially contested terrain

    Stephanie Barrientos

  • Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture

    Anne Tallontire;Catherine Dolan;Sally Smith;Stephanie Barrientos

  • Gender, Flexibility and Global Value Chains

    Stephanie Barrientos

  • Shifting regional dynamics of global value chains: Implications for economic and social upgrading in African horticulture

    Stephanie Barrientos;Peter Knorringa;Barbara Evers;Margareet Visser

  • Decent work in global production networks: Framing the policy debate

    Stephanie Barrientos;Frederick Mayer;John Pickles;Anne Posthuma

  • Women and agribusiness: working miracles in the Chilean fruit export sector.

    Stephanie Barrientos;A. Bee;A. Matear;I. Vogel

  • Dynamics of Unfree Labour in the Contemporary Global Economy

    Stephanie Barrientos;Uma Kothari;Nicola Phillips

  • Fair trade and ethical trade: are there moves towards convergence?

    Sally Smith;Stephanie Barrientos

  • Globalization and ethical trade: assessing the implications for development

    Stephanie Barrientos

  • Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World

    Haleh Afshar;Stephanie Barrientos

  • Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: Developing a Framework for Analysis.

    Stephanie Barrientos;Gary Gereffi;Arianna Rossi

  • The Gender Dimensions of Globalization of Production

    Stephanie Barrientos;Naila Kabeer;Naomi Hossain

  • Gender and Work in Global Value Chains

    Stephanie Barrientos

  • The Promise and Limits of Private Power: Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy. By Richard M. Locke.

    Stephanie Barrientos

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Dolan
Catherine Dolan School of Oriental and African Studies
Gary Gereffi
Gary Gereffi Duke University
Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer London School of Economics and Political Science
Armando Barrientos
Armando Barrientos University of Manchester
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University
David Hulme
David Hulme University of Manchester
Diana Mitlin
Diana Mitlin University of Manchester
Richard Heeks
Richard Heeks University of Manchester
Diane Elson
Diane Elson University of Essex

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