Industry clusters and global value chains: analytical frameworks to study the new world of textiles

摘要: As the complexity of textile industry has increased because international regulations, advancements in technology, and resultant globalization, so too have frameworks theories used to explain these phenomena how firms countries can succeed within new parameters competition. Recently two schools thought been study industrial organization patterns strategic decisions participants complex that fundamentally altered previous ideologies on what connects people, places, firm. Value chain scholars attest today's global industries requires a network-based approach capable ranging multiple spatial scales while elucidating dynamic relationships between them (Bair, 2003; Gereffi, 2005). Industry cluster researchers emphasize increasing importance location institutional actors increase competitiveness cannot be accessed from distance (Porter, 1990). This article reviews conceptual ideas tha...