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First published 2016-7

Economic and social upgrading dynamics in global manufacturing value chains: A comparative analysis

Thomas Bernhardt, Ruth Pollak

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

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First published 2019-4

Collective Action as a Prerequisite for Economic and Social Upgrading in Agricultural Production Networks

Ismail Doga Karatepe, Christoph Scherrer

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy

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First published 2019-7

Social Upgrading as Market Fantasy: The Limits of Global Value Chain Integration

Gavin Fridell, Chris Walker

Human Geography

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First published 2016-2

Social upgrading in developing country industrial clusters: A reflection on the literature

Frank Pyke, Peter Lund-Thomsen

Competition & Change

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First published 2013-2

Social Upgrading and Labour in Global Production Networks: A Critique and an Alternative Conception

Ben Selwyn

Competition & Change

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First published 2014-8

Global Value Chains and Social Upgrading of Clusters: Lessons from Two Cases of Fair Trade in the Brazilian Northeast

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Paulo Jordão de Oliveira Cerqueira Fortes

Competition & Change

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First published 2016-7

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

Stephanie Barrientos, Peter Knorringa, Barbara Evers [...]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

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First published 2021-12

Paradigmatic upgrading of social innovation studies

Nikolai Genov

Journal of Sociology

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First published 2017-4

Developing risk or resilience? Effects of slum upgrading on the social contract and social cohesion in Kibera,Nairobi

Shreya Mitra, Joe Mulligan, Janpeter Schilling [...]

Environment & Urbanization

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First published 2026-1

The Paradox of Upgrading: Standards of Social Reproduction and the Gendered Precarization of Garment Work in China

Yiran Zhang

Critical Sociology

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