Development with Global Value Chains
Upgrading and Innovation in Asia

Examines upgradation and innovation by firms in GVCs through case studies of China, India, South Korea, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Dev Nathan (Edited by), Meenu Tewari (Edited by), Sandip Sarkar (Edited by)

9781107104631, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 January 2019

438 pages
23.7 x 15.7 x 3.7 cm, 0.68 kg

'All in all, this book is a useful and timely contribution to ongoing discussions on GVCs. It offers a range of detailed case studies to inform our understanding of the changing organisation of global production, the prospects for catching-up of late industrialisers and a solid empirical account of the experiences of industrial upgrading in several Asian economies.' Yvette To, Journal of Contemporary Asia

Can firms and economies utilize global value chains for development? How can they move from low-income to middle-income and even high-income status? This book addresses these questions through a series of case studies examining upgradation and innovation by firms operating in GVCs in Asia. The countries examined are China, India, South Korea, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, with studies of firms operating in varied sectors - aerospace components, apparel, automotive, consumer electronics including mobile phones, telecom equipment, IT software and services, and pharmaceuticals.

List of tables and figures
1. Introduction Dev Nathan, Meenu Tewari and Sandip Sarkar
2. The changing landscape of contract manufacturers in the electronics industry global value chain Gale Raj-Reichert
3. Gaining process rents in the apparel industry: incremental improvements in labour and other management practices Dev Nathan and Harsh
4. New economic geographies of manufacturing in China Shengjun Zhu
5. The Philippines: a sequential approach to upgrading in manufacturing global value chains Penny Bamber, Jack Daly, Stacey Frederick and Gary Gereffi
6. Learning sequences in lower tiers of India's automotive value chain Meenu Tewari
7. Innovation and learning of latecomers: a case study of Chinese telecom-equipment companies Peilei Fan
8. From the phased manufacturing programme to frugal engineering: some initial propositions Nasir Tyabji
9. Industrial upgrading in the apparel value chain: the Sri Lanka experience Prema-chandra Athukorala
10. Strategic change in Indian IT majors: a challenge Neetu Ahmed
11. Moving from OEM to OBM? Upgrading of the Chinese mobile phone industry Huasheng Zhu, Fan Xu and Qingcan He
12. Indian pharmaceutical industry: policy and institutional challenges of moving from manufacturing generics to drug discovery Dinesh Abrol and Nidhi Singh
13. Revisiting the miracle: South Korea's industrial upgrading from a global value chain perspective Joonkoo Lee, Sang-Hoon Lee and Gwanho Park
14. Evolutionary demand, innovation, and development Smita Srinivas
15. GVCs and development policy: vertically- specialized industrialization Dev Nathan.

Subject Areas: Service industries [KNS], Industry & industrial studies [KN], Operational research [KJT], Business & management [KJ], Economic growth [KCG], Labour economics [KCF], Economics of industrial organisation [KCD], Macroeconomics [KCB], Economics [KC]