Gary Gereffi is Professor of Sociology and Director of the The Duke GVC Center. He teaches courses at Duke University on economic sociology, globalization and comparative development, and international competitiveness. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. Gereffi has published numerous books and articles on globalization, industrial upgrading, and social and economic development in various parts of the world. His books include: Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia (Princeton University Press, 1990); Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (Praeger Publishers, 1994); Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA (Temple University Press, 2002); The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development (International Institute of Labor Studies, 2006); Manufacturing Climate Solutions: Carbon-Reducing Technologies and U.S. Jobs (Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness, Duke University, 2008); and Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: A Development Perspective (The World Bank, 2010). Gereffi’s research interests deal with the competitive strategies of global firms, the governance of global value chains, economic and social upgrading, and the emerging global knowledge economy.

Latest Reports

• Korea in Global Value Chains: Pathways for Industrial Transformation
• Chapter 5: GVCs, Industrial Transformation and Opportunities for Korea
• Chapter 1: Global Value Chains and Economic Development
• Measurement in a World of Globalized Production: What are Potential Drivers of ‘Unequal’ Value Distribution in Agri-Food Value Chains?
• The Philippines in the Cocoa-Chocolate GVC
• The Philippines in the Mango GVC
• The Philippines in the Coffee GVC
• The Philippines in the Rubber GVC
• Maize Value Chains in East Africa
• Regional Value Chains in East Africa: Summary Report
• The Philippines in the Paper Global Value Chain
• The Philippines in the Chemical Global Value Chain
• The Philippines in the Electronics and Electrical Global Value Chain
• The Philippines in the Automotive Global Value Chain
• The Philippines in the Aerospace Global Value Chain
• Peru in the Table Grape Global Value Chain: Opportunities for Upgrading in Peru
• Peru in the Mining Equipment Global Value Chain: Opportunities for Upgrading
• Peru in the High Quality Cotton Textile and Apparel Global Value Chain: Opportunities for Upgrading in Peru
• Pro-Poor Development and Power Asymmetries in Global Value Chains
• Public-Private Partnerships in Global Value Chains: Can They Actually Benefit the Poor?
• Nicaragua and the Apparel Value Chain in the Americas: Implications for Regional Trade and Employment
• USAID Jordan Competitiveness Program: Jordan ICT Cluster, ICT Taxonomy and Subsector Selection Report
• Capturing the Gains in Africa: Making the Most of Global Value Chain Participation
• Burundi in the Energy Global Value Chain: Skills for Private Sector Development
• Burundi in the Coffee Global Value Chain: Skills for Private Sector Development
• Burundi in the Agribusiness Global Value Chain: Skills for Private Sector Development
• Burundi in the Agribusiness, Coffee and Energy Global Value Chains: Skills for Private Sector Development: Project Overview
• The Tobacco Global Value Chain in Low Income Countries
• The Furniture Value Chain in North Carolina
• Wheat Value Chains and Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa Region
• Costa Rica in the Offshore Services Global Value Chain: Opportunities for Upgrading: Chapter 5
• Costa Rica in the Medical Devices Global Value Chain: Opportunities for Upgrading: Chapter 2
• Costa Rica in the Electronics Global Value Chain: Opportunities for Upgrading: Chapter 3
• Costa Rica in the Aerospace Global Value Chain: Opportunities for Entry & Upgrading: Chapter 4
• Costa Rica in Global Value Chains: An Upgrading Analysis: Introduction: Chapter 1
• Realizing the Potential of African Agriculture: Innovations and Market Access for Smallholders Farmers
• US Coal and the Technology Innovation Frontier: What Role Does Coal Play in our Energy Future?
• The NSPS Shipbuilding Value Chains
• Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Addressing the Skills Challenge in Developing Countries
• Geosynthetics: Coastal Management Applications in the Gulf of Mexico
• Inclusion of Small- and Medium-Sized Producers in High-Value Agro-Food Value Chains
• Assessing Ocean Technology Value Chains: A Guide for the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
• Nova Scotia’s Ocean Technologies: A Global Value Chain Analysis of Inshore & Extreme Climate Vehicles, Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, and Underwater Sensors & Instrumentation
• Manual: Desarrollo Económico Local y Cadenas Globales de Valor
• Restoring Gulf Oyster Reefs: Opportunities for Innovation
• Restoring the Gulf Coast: New Markets for Established Firms
• Meeting the Upgrading Challenge: Dynamic Workforces for Diversified Economies: Chapter 6
• The Offshore Services Global Value Chain: Economic Upgrading and Workforce Development: Chapter 4
• Workforce Development in the Global Economy: Linking Skills and Capabilities: Chapter 1
• Skills for Upgrading: Workforce Development and Global Value Chains in Developing Countries
• The Tourism Global Value Chain: Economic Upgrading and Workforce Development: Chapter 5
• The Fruit and Vegetables Global Value Chain: Economic Upgrading and Workforce Development: Chapter 2
• The Apparel Global Value Chain: Economic Upgrading and Workforce Development: Chapter 3
• Smart Grid: Core Firms in the Research Triangle Region, North Carolina
• U.S. Smart Grid: Finding New Ways to Cut Carbon and Create Jobs
• The Multiple Pathways to Industrial Energy Efficiency: A Systems and Value Chain Approach
• Strengthening Nicaragua’s Position in the Textile-Apparel Value Chain: Upgrading in the Context of the CAFTA-DR Region
• Case Study: A123 Systems Local Markets and Competitiveness, A Value Chain Analysis
• Case Study: Cree, Inc. Local Markets and Global Competitiveness: A Value Chain Analysis
• Lithium-ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles: The U.S. Value Chain
• Agricultural Value Chains in the Mexicali Valley of Mexico: Main Producers and Buyers
• Engineering Services in the Americas
• U.S. Manufacture of Rail Vehicles for Intercity Passenger Rail and Urban Transit: A Value Chain Analysis
• The Offshore Services Value Chain: Developing Countries and the Crisis
• The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
• Workforce Development in Chile’s Offshore Services
• A Value Chain Analysis of the Sinaloa, Mexico Shrimp Fishery
• Chile’s Offshore Services Value Chain
• The Offshore Services Global Value Chain
• U.S. Adoption of High-Efficiency Motors and Drives: Lessons Learned
• The Development and Diffusion of Powder Coatings in the United States and Europe: A Historical and Value Chain Perspective
• The Offshore Services Industry: A New Opportunity for Latin America
• Public Transit Buses: A Green Choice Gets Greener
• Wind Power: Generating Electricity and Employment: Chapter 11
• Residential Re-Insulation: Chapter 10
• Hybrid Drivetrains for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Trucks: Chapter 9
• Carbon Capture and Storage: A Post-Combustion Capture Technology: Chapter 8
• Recycling Industrial Waste Energy: Chapter 7
• Electric Heat Pump Water Heaters: Chapter 6
• A Value Chain Analysis of the U.S. Beef and Dairy Industries
• A Value Chain Analysis of the U.S. Beef & Dairy Industries
• Super Soil Systems: Chapter 5
• LED Lighting: Chapter 1
• High-Performance Windows: Chapter 2
• Concentrating Solar Power: Clean Energy for the Electric Grid: Chapter 4
• Auxiliary Power Units for Trucks: Chapter 3
• Manufacturing Climate Solutions – Carbon-Reducing Technologies and U.S. Jobs (Chapters 1-5)
• A Value Chain Analysis of the U.S. Pork Industry
• A Value Chain Analysis of Selected California Crops
• An Analysis of the U.S. Real Estate Value Chain with Environmental Metrics

Latest Publications

• Global Value Chains and International Development: Framework, Findings and Policies
• Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer: 2nd Edition
• Promoting Decent Work in Global Supply Chains (GSCs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): Key Issues, Good Practices, Lessons Learned and Policy Insights
• Global value chains and upgrading: Export promotion in FTZs
• Bahrain’s Position in the Global Apparel Value Chain: How the U.S.-Bahrain FTA and TPLs Shape Future Development Options
• Regional trade agreements and export competitiveness: the uncertain path of Nicaragua’s apparel exports under CAFTA
• The Future of Manufacturing: Driving Capabilities, Enabling Investments
• North Carolina’s Manufacturing Wage Gap
• Global Value Chains in Latin America: A Development Perspective for Upgrading
• What Role Can Coal Play in the United States’ Energy Future?
• Global value chains in a post-Washington Consensus world
• Globalization, Recession and the Internationalization of Industrial Districts: Experiences from the Italian Gold Jewelry Industry
• Risks and Opportunities of Participation in Global Value Chains
• Comparing Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s Wheat GVC
• Brazilian Manufacturing in International Perspective: A Global Value Chain Analysis of Brazil’s Aerospace, Medical Devices, and Electronics Sectors
• Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains? – Response: Governments in Big Emerging Economies Can Pressure Foreign Companies
• Global Value Chain-Oriented Industrial Policy: The Role of Emerging Economies
• Regional Competitiveness in the Latin America Offshore Services Value Chain
• Brazil in Global Value Chains: Implications for Trade and Industrial Policy [O Brasil nas Cadeias Globais de Valor: Implicações para a Política Industrial e de Comércio]
• Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains
• Joining, Upgrading and Being Competitive in Global Value Chains
• Medical Devices Global Value Chain: Opportunities and Challenges for Upgrading
• Co-evolution of Concentration in Mobile Phone Global Value Chains and Its Impact on Social Upgrading in Developing Countries
• Global Value Chains and Agrifoods Standards: Challenges and Possibilities for Smallholders in Developing Countries
• Why the World Suddenly Cares About Global Supply Chains
• Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: A New Paradigm for a Changing World
• Skills for Upgrading: Workforce Development and Global Value Chains in Developing Countries
• Upgrading & Restructuring in the Global Apparel Value Chain: Why China & Asia are Outperforming Mexico & Central America
• Global Value Chains, Upgrading and Poverty Reduction
• China’s (Not So Hidden) Developmental State: Becoming a Leading Nanotechnology Innovator in the Twenty-First Century
• The Offshore Services Value Chain: Upgrading Trajectories in Developing Countries
• Traveling Technologies: Societal Implications of Nanotechnology Through the Global Value Chain
• Global Value Chains and International Competition
• Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer
• The Marketing and Distribution of Fast Food
• Global Value Chains in a Postcrisis World: Resilience, Consolidation, and Shifting End Markets
• Regulation and Economic Globalization: Prospects and Limits of Private Governance
• The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
• The Offshore Services Value Chain: Developing Countries and the Crisis
• Trade, Transnational Corporations and Food Consumption: A GVC Approach
• ‘U.S.-Based Food and Agricultural Value Chains and Their Relevance to Healthy Diets
• Globalisation of the Automotive Industry: Main Features and Trends
• Measuring Success in the Global Economy: International Trade, Industrial Upgrading and Business Function Outsourcing in Global Value Chains
• Protectionism in Textiles and Apparel
• Review and Analysis of Protectionist Actions in the Textile and Apparel Industries
• The American Brain Drain and Asia
• The North American Automotive Value Chain: Canada’s Role and Prospects
• Value Chain Governance
• The American Brain Drain and Asia
• The Impacts of Wal-Mart: The Rise and Consequences of the World’s Dominant Retailer
• America’s Loss is the World’s Gain: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part IV
• A Global Value Chain Approach to Food Safety and Quality Standards
• The Challenge of Global Value Chains: Why Integrative Trade Requires New Thinking and New Data
• How the Disciple Became the Guru
• Development Models and Industrial Upgrading in China and Mexico
• The Globalization of Innovation: Can India and China Cure the Global Pharmaceutical Market?
• Skilled Immigration and Economic Growth
• Value Chains, Networks and Clusters: Reframing the Global Automotive Industry
• Getting the Numbers Right: International Engineering Education in the United States, China, and India
• A Global Value Chains Approach to Food, Healthy Diets, and Childhood Obesity
• Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog and a Reverse Brain-Drain: Part III
• Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part II
• Where the Engineers Are
• Prospects for Canada in the NAFTA Automotive Industry: A Global Value Chain Analysis
• America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part I

Latest Presentations

• The Digital Economy & Global Value Chains: Implications for Korea
• Global Value Chains, Industry 4.0, and Korean Industrial Transformation
• Global Value Chains and Industrial Clusters
• A Global Value Chain Analysis of Food Security and Food Staples for Major Energy-Exporting Nations in the Middle East and North Africa
• Africa & Tourism Global Value Chains
• Global Value Chains and Development
• The Uptake of Global Value Chains by International Organizations
• Global Value Chains and Development: Concepts and Methodologies
• From Value Chain Mapping to Policy Recommendations
• Global Value Chains and the Changing Geography of Development
• Productive Development Policies and Upgrading: Linking Value Chains, Regions and Firms
• Global Value Chains and Duke CGGC’s Collaboration in Kazakhstan
• Wheat Value Chain and Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa Region
• Can Public-Private Partnerships Actually Benefit the Poor?
• Global Value Chains in Latin America
• Food Security and International Trade: A Global Value Chains Approach
• Shifting Governance Structures in the Wheat Value Chain: Implications for Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa
• DC Briefing: North Carolina in the Global Economy
• Nuevas Tendencias en las Cadenas de Valor y el Escalamiento Industrial
• Global Value Chains and Upgrading: New Trends and Implications for Food and Nutrition Security
• Global Value Chains: Governance, Upgrading and Emerging Economies
• North Carolina Competitiveness in a North American Context
• Wheat Global Value Chains, Global Corporations and Food Security in MENA
• The Apparel Value Chain and Trade Policy in the Americas
• Global Value Chains, Upgrading and Competitiveness
• Global Value Chains, Italy’s Industrial Districts, and the Competitiveness Challenge
• Global Value Chains in a Post-Washington Consensus World
• Global Value Chain-Oriented Industrial Policy: The Role of Emerging Economies
• Synergistic Governance as a Tool to Promote Worker Rights in Global Supply Chains
• Global Value Chains and Competitiveness: New Research on Trade, Investment and Upgrading
• Cadenas globales de valor en México: desafíos y oportunidades
• Participación de Costa Rica en cadenas globales de valor: mapeo y perspectivas futuras
• Global Value Chains and the Analysis of International Business Operations
• Drivers of Global Value Chain Performance and Outcomes
• A Global Value Chain Perspective on Investment and Infrastructure in Emerging Markets
• Medical Devices Global Value Chain: Opportunities and Challenges for Upgrading
• The NSPS Shipbuilding Value Chains
• Workforce Development and Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: Lessons from Chile, India and the Philippines
• Global Value Chains and Development in the Emerging Economies
• Latin America’s Prospects for Upgrading in Global Value Chains
• New Trends in Value Chain Upgrading: Lessons from Large and Small Countries
• The Coal Industry Value Chain and Competitiveness
• Nova Scotia’s Ocean Technologies
• Global Value Chains in the Ocean Technology Sector
• Global Value Analysis and its Implications for Measuring Global Trade
• Sunrise and Sunset Industries in North Carolina
• Global Value Chain Analysis: A Framework for Analyzing Upgrading and Competitiveness in Global Industries
• Global Value Chain Analysis: A Competitiveness Framework for Ocean Technologies Companies in Nova Scotia
• Value Chains and Clean Energy
• US Jobs and the Clean Energy Economy: A Value Chain Approach
• New Directions in Global Value Chain Research
• Global Value Chain Websites and Micro-Data
• Internationalization in North Carolina Sociology: North Carolina in the Global Economy
• The Economic Crisis: A Global Value Chain Perspective
• The Promotion of Trade and Investment in Iber-America: Is Regional Promotion Possible? (In Spanish)
• Opportunities and Challenges for Agricultural Value Chains in Latin America
• New Trends and Challenges of Participating in Global Production Networks
• Global Value Chains and Sustainable Development: Tools for Research and Action
• A Value Chain Approach to Understanding the Impact of Nanotechnology
• America’s Loss is the World’s Gain: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part IV
• Manufacturing Climate Solutions in a Carbon-Constrained World
• Global Services Offshoring: Trends and Impact in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Beyond the Sunbelt: Southern Economic Development in a Global Context
• Global Value Chains, Industrial Upgrading and Jobs in Large Emerging Economies: A Comparison of China, India, and Mexico
• Nanotechnology, Commercialization & Innovation: North Carolina
• North Carolina in the Global Economy: A New Look at Global Competition, Local Jobs and the Role of Research Universities
• Panel on “Building/Re-Building State Capacity: Complement or Alternative to Private Monitoring Efforts?”
• Global­local production networks: Clusters and institutions as drivers of change for industrial upgrading
• China’s Impact on North Carolina’s Major Industries
• Panelist on “The New Logic of Offshoring Innovation & Engineering: What Works and What Doesn’t”
• Panelist on “Building A Bridge: The Link Between Education and Business (Education and Workforce Development)”
• A Duke Conversation
• Global production networks, competitive upgrading and implications
• Nanotechnology in a Global Context: North Carolina
• North Carolina in the Global Economy: A new look at global competition, local jobs, and the role of research universities and community colleges
• North Carolina in the Global Economy: A new look at global competition, local jobs, and the role of research universities
• The Offshoring of Engineering
• Developing Research Synergies between Academia and Business: The North Carolina in the Global Economy Project at Duke University
• Global Production, Social Models and Development
• North Carolina in the Global Economy: New Strategies to Compete in Traditional and Modern Industries
• Expand Your Network in China
• Building Business Ties Between North Carolina and Baja California, Mexico
• International Trade and Offshore Production: Tracking China’s Shifting Role in the Global Economy
• The Fiber-Textile-Apparel Value Chain: Mexico and China Compared
• The New Offshoring of Jobs and Its Implications for Skills and Consumers
• ILO Nobel Peace Prize Social Policy Lectures & Symposium

Blog Posts

• GVC Analysis: A Tool to Promote Economic Development

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