Abstract
Analysis of contemporary globalisation processes has generated two major strands of literatures that focus on the spatial organization of the world economy. In the global commodity chains literature (see, for example, Gereffi and Korzeniewicz 1994; Dicken et al. 2001; Gereffi et al. 2005) attention is paid (a) to the creation and distribution of value within transnational chains or networks of production, and (b) to the control of value creation and distribution along the different nodes of a commodity chain - from raw material exploitation through stages of trade, services and manufacturing processes to final consumption.
The empirical part of this chapter was elaborated in the scope of the project “Transformation and Urban Processes in Latin America”, financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), No. 14883. We thank Peter Taylor for making the GaWC database available to us.
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Parnreiter, C., Fischer, K., Imhof, K. (2010). Global Cities and the Governance of Commodity Chains: A Case Study From Latin America. In: Lindert, P., Verkoren, O. (eds) Decentralized Development in Latin America. GeoJournal Library, vol 97. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3739-8_4
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