The Sustainable Development Center (SDC) of Maastricht School of Management (MSM) and the Working Group on Industrialization Strategies of the European Association of Development and Training Institutes (EADI) will organize an expert seminar at MSM on November 26 and 27, 2009.
The EADI working group invites researchers to submit an abstract on the topic of: Promoting Sustainable Global Value Chains: The Role of Governance. Due to changes in production systems, distribution channels, financial markets and information technologies, horizontal aspects such as local clusters are increasingly being integrated into vertical aspects of global value chains. This suggests that organization of producers is crucial to accessing global value chains; certain types of GVC governance promote and require it. But the process of producer organization is by nature exclusionary as well as inclusionary.
The workshop will explore the role of external and internal governance in promoting sustainable global value chains and other related topics. Among these we suggest the following: - Role of external governance structures shaping global value chains, including mandatory and voluntary environmental and social standards; - Role of internal governance in creating, monitoring and enforcing commodity specifications and of international standards; - Role of donors, governmental organizations, and civil society in influencing value chains; - Partnerships as mechanisms for value chain upgrading; - Role of knowledge acquisition and management in the upgrading strategies of firms and clusters; - Importance of local and global subcontracting cultures; - Impact of ICTs on the global value chain organization;
Researchers interested to present a paper that addresses theoretical, empirical and policy issues related to the seminar theme are invited to submit an abstract by May 15, 2009. The acceptance of some 35 papers will be communicated by May 31, 2009 with final submissions required by October 31, 2009. A selection of papers will be published in 2010.
Abstracts have to be sent to m.vandijk@unesco-ihe.org. Information For more information please visit the SDC website (www.msm.nl/sdc) or send an e-mail to m.vandijk@unesco-ihe.org regarding the content of the seminar and the procedure of the 'call for papers' and to sdc@msm.nl regarding registration and organizational issues.
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