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Global Value Chains: Some Examples and Resulting Issues Global Value Chains: Some Examples and Resulting Issues Meine Pieter van Dijk Professor entrepreneurship at Maastricht School of Management for ICIM 2008 Conference in Maastricht, The Netherland （Email: [email protected]） Abstract The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) approach can be combined with the Global Value Chain (GVC) approach. The challenge is to develop products or services for the Bottom of the Pyramid through unconventional partnering and empowering local producers and stimulating local value creation. This requires a focus on innovation, while keeping an eye open for sustainability. The big advantage of the GVC approach is that the development of economic activities is put in a context of resources and markets, of local, regional and international economies, of individual entrepreneurs and clusters, of competing in local, regional or international markets. The Global value chain concept is not new, but the global value concept came up when the discussion of the effects of globalization started and can be considered to be more encompassing than the other terms. Products which have been studied extensively under this angle are commodities, garments and textiles, leather products and electronics. In this paper four studies concerning the value chain will be pulled together to show how GVC and BOP approaches can be combined. It is concluded that upgrading of GVCs is possible and the GVC and the BOP approach can be combined. This requires the development of business models that link small producers to the GVC. In an increasing number of countries private firms play the role of extension service and marketing institution and farmers accept to pay for their services. It is important to stimulate innovation in these value chains and all kinds of projects may be necessary to promote value chain development. Key words Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP), Global Value Chain (GVC), Africa, Asia 1 Introduction The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP; Prahalad, 2007) approach can be combined with the Global Value Chain (GVC; Gerefi and Kaplynski, 2001) approach. The BOP can be studied as an important group of consumers or as a series of low income producer who would earn more if the value chain would allow them to sell their products and earn a decent margin. The challenge is to develop products or services for the Bottom of the Pyramid through unconventional partnering and empowering local producers and stimulating local value creation as part of larger value chains. This requires a focus on innovation, while keeping an eye open for sustainability. In this paper use will be made of previous studies concerning the value chain.i We will first provide a theoretical perspective and summarize some of the issues. Then the evidence of three cases will be presented, before drawing some conclusions. 2 The Global Value Chain Perspective The global value chain concept is not new if earlier terms to describe the same phenomenon are remembered: supply chains, international production networks, commodity chains and filieres. However, the global value chain concept came up when the discussion of the effects of globalization started and can be considered to be more encompassing than the other terms. The supply chain concept for example typically takes the perspective of a western company concerned about getting raw materials and spare parts. In the same way international production networks refer to efforts to outsource and place the production of certain parts in developing countries. The commodity chains, or what the French call filieres are much older and come closest to the GVC. Gerefi and Korrzeniewicz (1994) started using the term in its present meaning and Gerefi with Bair analyzed for example a blue jeans chain starting in Mexico (Bair and Gerefi, 2001). Other products which have been studied extensively under this angle are commodities, garments and textiles, leather products and electronics (Altenburg, ed., 2006). The big advantage of the GVC approach is that the development of economic activities are put in a context of resources and markets, of local, regional and international economies, of individual entrepreneurs and clusters, and of competing in local, regional or international markets. The novel aspect of the GVC approach is that it anticipates competition and integration in the world economy. It takes into account the competition products are involved in at a world-wide scale. An 272 export-orientation is assumed, even for small and medium enterprises. Globalization is considered a win win situation and not a zero sum game. However, different countries, regions and cities benefit more than others from the new opportunities (Van Dijk, 2006a). 3 Issues in the Literature on GVC Some of the major issues in the GVC literature are, the role of lead firms, the issues of power in the chain and the resulting distributional issues (Preville, 2002), the low road (just based on cheap labour) or the high road of GVC competition (Guilano et al., 2005). Finally theory formation in GVC analysis seems to be somewhat behind. We will show in the case of bananas that the real situation in the chain often does not correspond with what the theory expects. Theory formation has concentrated on the value chain governance situation (Humphrey and Schmitz, 2000) and not so much on how to promote competition to assure a fairer distribution of the margins. The chain governance structure can be characterized as a network-styled way of governance, arm’s length market relations or as a situation of oligopoly. Sometimes one firm plays a very important role in the chain. Market power is sometimes analyzed, but it is rarely the subject of a competition regulator. They tend to focus on individual firms and not on value chains. The following figure shows the relations between the cluster, the GVC and the Supply Chain Management (SCM) approach. On the top of the pyramid the cluster view emerges. Through networking between the private and public sector the cluster tries to influence regional and local development to its advantage. It promotes the development of SCM and eventually becomes aware of the importance of the political and social issues at a global scale that influence the benefits in the chain and their distribution over different actors. Regional and Local Development Perspective Cluster view Interaction of public & private actors GVC view: Value adding globally SCM view: Inter-firms relations Political and social issues At local and global level Figure 1 Cluster view: Private and Public Interaction Source: Van Dijk and Wang (2005). 4 Issues Concerning the Value Chains in Kenya and Uganda The Round Table Africa (RTA) project (MSM, 2007) covers some 30 value chain studies concerning different activities and countries in the Southern African region. This helped us to identify a number of issues in different countries and value chains. It also allowed further study of some of the specificities of these value chains in the countries visited in the framework of this study: Kenya and Uganda. The following general factors influence the functioning of the value chains, but vary from country to country. They determine the environment of a value chain: 1) The macro economic and political circumstances in a country or region. 2) The attitude of the government with respect to the private sector is very important. 273 3) The potential of the country to produce certain products and to render specific services is important, for example each country would like to develop tourism or information technology (IT) services, but not every country has the potential. 4) The historical presence of certain chains like coffee or palm oil compared to the potential of new opportunities offered by valuable products such as flowers and IT. 5) The state of the infrastructure in a country and the distance to the coast, or the nearest port. 6) Competition from other countries or from similar products influences the development of a value chain 7) Business confidence: according to a World Bank research Uganda is ahead of its competitors in terms of business confidence, meaning this information is available. Certainly Kenya will have to do something to re-establish confidence (World Bank, 2008). 8) The role of international actors, such as mining and other trans- or multi-national companies are important in the governance of the value chains. 9) Finally the conditions identified by Collier (2007) are important: the presence of conflict or war, being landlocked with unfriendly neighbours, having poor governance, or resources without governance structures to distribute their benefits. 5 Examples of Issues of Global Value Chains in Kenya and Uganda Certain factors, however, are also specific for a value chain in a given country and will now be discussed, using examples from Kenya and Uganda. In box 1 the issues in the extractive industries in some other Southern African countries are presented. Given their importance agricultural value chains will be discussed first. Most research focuses on a certain product to understand the specificities of that agricultural value chain. For example maize, cashew nuts and fruit exports are studied. Currently there is a lot of attention for horticulture, bio fuels, but also cotton (in particular better quality and organic cotton), fishery, forestry and sugar. There are a number of factors in common for the agricultural value chains, besides soils and climate: 1) There is often a need for an external agency necessary to organize the farmers. Different solutions are possible. Not just government or cooperatives, but also private sector and associations. Foreign firms have mobilized the poorer farmers, for example in the case of jaitropha in Tanzania. 2) Infrastructure is important and transport opportunities for agricultural products need to be studied to find out whether poor people are also served by the current transport system. 3) Is FDI an effective way for developing these agricultural activities in a sustainable way? Box 1.
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