Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2017-07-04T12:03:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 izakcarlosdasilva.pdf: 4153943 bytes, checksum: 27b4a03970bedafb63e67ab3212b00ee (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-08-08T14:40:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 izakcarlosdasilva.pdf: 4153943 bytes, checksum: 27b4a03970bedafb63e67ab3212b00ee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-08T14:40:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 izakcarlosdasilva.pdf: 4153943 bytes, checksum: 27b4a03970bedafb63e67ab3212b00ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / O objetivo do presente trabalho constituiu-se em analisar o comportamento das cadeias agroindustriais de valor, definidas com base na extração hipotética do setor de Agricultura, Floresta, Caça e Pesca (1), no que se refere a dinâmica da integração produtiva, mimetizada pela taxa de conteúdo doméstico nas exportações e os seus desdobramentos sobre dinamismo econômico, a produtividade e as especializações de cada país. Os resultados indicaram a existência de um processo de dispersão concentrada, em que os elos das cadeias produtivas dos setores agroindustriais estão dispersos ao redor do mundo, porém concentrados de acordo com características específicas, como elevada integração e vantagens locacionais. Além disso, os resultados indicaram uma dicotomia entre elevado acoplamento às Cadeias Globais de Valor e a presença de vantagens locacionais, fatores os quais, raramente, ocorrem simultaneamente. Para o Brasil, especificamente, notou-se desintegração longitudinal relativa às Cadeias Agroindustriais de Valor, com redução das vantagens locacionais e redução relativa nos diferencias de produtividade. / The objective of the present study was to analyze the behavior of agroindustrial chains of value, defined based on the hypothetical extraction of the Agriculture, Forest, Hunting and Fishing sector (1), regarding the dynamics of productive integration, Rate of domestic con-tent in exports and its effects on the economic dynamism, productivity and specializations of each country. The results indicated the existence of a concentrated dispersion process, where the links of the productive chains of the agroindustrial sectors are dispersed around the world, but concentrated according to specific characteristics, such as high integration and locational advantages. In addition, the results indicated a dichotomy between high coupling to the Global Value Chains and the presence of locational advantages, factors that rarely occur simultaneously. For Brazil, specifically, there was a longitudinal disintegration relative to Agroindustrial Chains of Value, with reduction of locational advantages and relative reduction in productivity differences.

Treatment of elderly people and citizens in need of professional care is one of the most important aspects of any society to consider that aims at support for quality of life. Support for such qualitative aspects of a modern society often manifests itself by means of value-chains. However, all activities that a business or organization uses are not included in the value-chain, it is only the activities and information that generate any kind of value for the users in a particular organization that are included in the value-chains. To that end, the locality of health care related information primarily exists at the hospital and, therefore, the care of patients is most efficiently carried out at the hospital. However, if the involved information can be accessed anywhere throughout the value-chain, a possible situation would be to keep the patients in their homes without disrupting already established work practice and related value-chains. In principle, introducing new technology must not disrupt a value-chain; it must preserve or, even better, improve it. Health care is becoming more mobile and needs support for such behavior. The quantitative value to the user is quantified by means of value-chains, so it is important that they remain non-disrupted. Consequently, the fundamental concepts dealt with in this thesis are; value-chains, health care and mobile technology. The problem domain is distributed health care and we have chosen to focus on sustainability of the involved value-chains. In essence, we want to add new technology to the domain without disrupting already existing value-chains. This in order to make the distributed health care apparatus more efficient and cost effective. The main problem we have identified is regarding how medical doctors and nurses could access the same information in patients' homes as they can at the hospital.

Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / This study explored value-chain governance in the Tugela Ferry Irrigation Scheme in KwaZulu-Natal, and presents data on input markets, vegetable production and output markets. Rural poverty is a major problem in post-apartheid South Africa, and smallholder agriculture has been identified by the Economic Development Department as a key component of its New Growth Path framework. Some scholars argue that since water is a scarce resource, irrigation farming should form a key focus of pro-poor land redistribution policy. The 1994 democratic dispensation saw the dismantling of the agricultural homeland parastatals which managed these schemes, causing them to collapse or near collapse. Yet they may have the potential to reduce rural poverty. While markets are key for viable production of fresh produce, some scholars assert that globally, input suppliers, food processors and supermarkets dominate the agro-food industry resulting in negative outcomes for smallholder producers. In South Africa, four major supermarkets (which together claim 55% of retail market share) were in the past located mainly in cities, but the trend now is that they are moving to small towns and townships. There are documented cases where pro-poor governance of fresh produce value chains has resulted in positive outcomes in South Africa. The re-governing markets concept which postulates that a multi-stakeholder approach to making the governance of agricultural value chains pro-poor, is offered as a solution to reducing poverty. This thesis argues that the incorporation of smallholder farmers into modern markets remains ineffective in dealing with poverty because it includes only a few smallholder farmers and those included face exclusion when they are exposed to harsh market conditions.

Le travail de recherche présenté dans cette thèse est né de la confrontation entre la littérature récente sur la transformation structurelle et la littérature portant sur les chaînes de valeur globales. Alors que la transformation productive est analysée par le prisme des transformations des exportations, la fragmentation mondiale des productions rend cette approche problématique. En effet, il peut y avoir une rupture entre le contenu factoriel des exportations et les dotations factorielles des économies, impliquant que la modernisation des exportations ne peut être qu’« illusoire ». Notre démarche vise alors à comprendre la nature complexe et multidimensionnelle de la transformation structurelle dans le contexte actuel, et d’en étudier des déterminants innovants. Nous définissons tout d’abord une transformation structurelle « soutenable » que nous caractérisons à partir d’indicateurs agrégés. Puis, l’étude des déterminants révèle des risques d’ « hyper-spécialisation » associés à l’industrialisation, notamment dans les secteurs du textile et de l’électronique. Nous montrons par ailleurs que la non-conformité aux dotations factorielles permet la diversification vers des exportations modernes. Cette transformation est cependant superficielle, et ce d’autant plus qu’elle s’accompagne d’IDE. Nous identifions également une relation causale positive entre les IDE et l’intensité factorielle des exportations, alors qu’elle est négative avec les dotations factorielles domestiques. La sophistication des exportations dépendrait donc davantage des IDE que de l’accumulation de capabilités. Il apparait donc indispensable dans une approche par les exportations de la transformation structurelle, d’intégrer la dimension de soutenabilité. / The analysis we present in this dissertation emerges from a confrontation of the recent literature on structural change and the literature on global value chains. Productive transformation is almost exclusively analysed through exports transformation. However, the international fragmentation of production makes this export-based approach hazardous. The potential gap between factor content of exports and countries’ factor endowments imply that exports modernization may only be an illusion. We address the complex and multidimensional nature of structural change given the current economic context and we examine innovative determinants of structural transformation. We develop the idea of a sustainable structural transformation that we describe through aggregate indicators. The analysis of the determinants through descriptive and econometric methods reveals risks of lock-in situations as well as risks of immiserising specialisation in the industrialization process, specifically in the textile and electronic sectors. We also find that defying factor endowments encourages diversification towards sophisticated exports. However this transformation is unsustainable especially when countries are major FDI recipients. We show that FDI positively influences factor content of exports while they have a negative impact on factor endowments. Thus, a productive transformation generated through FDI does not imply factor accumulation. Finally, export sophistication seems to rely more on FDI rather than on capabilities accumulation, meaning that the sustainability dimension is essential in an export-based approach of structural transformation.

The thesis aims to assess the relations between China and ASEAN and their influence on regional stability and prosperity of ASEAN. The main focus of this thesis is the dynamics of trade relations, including the countries involvement in global value chains. The thesis covers trade in goods, services, cooperation in strategic areas and foreign direct investment.

Today, different parts of a value chain operate in different places, different firms may hold ranges of brands with different national heritages, and leaders, shareholders and customers are widely spread across the world. Policy makers are facing new challenges as national borders define less and less of corporate thinking. In this paper, we argue that there is a need to find a new way of how to understand the relationship between business and nation-states. The theoretical framework was constructed by breaking down the concept of national identity of companies. We found four different aspects that we argue can connect business to nations, and in the empirical study, our ambition is to test this framework. By conducting the study using qualitative content analysis, we aim to answer the research question of if it possible to understand the national identity of companies through different aspects of business, and if so, how this is reflected in the national trade policies of four countries. Our results showed that by looking beyond the traditional view of national identity of companies, policy makers have three important factors to take into regards when considering their relations to business; location, culture and contribution.

Garment sector trade unions have proved largely powerless to combat hypermobile transnational capital’s systematic extraction of surplus value from the newly industrialized Global South. Optimized conditions for accumulation coupled with the 2005 phase-out of the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) have meant a radical geographic reconfiguration of the globalised garment industry heavily in favour of capital over labour. The thesis approaches the global garment sector from multiple vantage points across the world with the goal of uncovering the obstacles to workers' organisation, examine workers' strategies of resistance, and analyse the changing composition of labour and capital within the clothing commodity chain. The thesis highlights five distinct but interconnected case studies including a transnational workers campaign from a garment factory in Honduras; a history and present-day feasibility of establishing a transnational collective bargaining from El Salvador to Turkey to Cambodia; the prospects for a countermovement in the organizing strategies at the bottom of the clothing commodity and supply chain in Bangalore; the growth of a 'full package' denim manufacturer in changing the relationship between 'buyers' and 'suppliers' on the outskirts of Bangalore; and finally a continuation of this analysis the case of a strike at a monopoly footwear supplier in China. The central research question is: How do workers build power and establish workers' rights in the globally hypermobile garment sector? Ultimately, what is demonstrated within this thesis is that the actions of garment workers shaped and circumscribed the actions of capital in the sector, and as capital transformed new landscapes for accumulation new vistas for opposition begin to emerge.

Os estudos de Governança de Cadeias Globais de Valor (CGVs) analisaram um grande espectro indústrias nos últimos 20 anos, mas a pesquisa de CGV em indústrias de bens de informação ainda é limitado. Cartões de crédito, sistemas operacionais, jogos digitais e aplicativos móveis são exemplos de indústrias que possuem provedores de plataforma, que mediam as interações entre fornecedores e consumidores. Nos últimos anos, o desenvolvimento de plataformas digitais em indústrias tradicionais possibilitou movimentos disruptivos conhecidos como uberização.Os relacionamentos em plataformas são desenhados para serem multilaterais e possuírem efeitos de rede para atrair um maior volume de participantes, o que muda a natureza da coordenação em relação às cadeias tradicionais baseadas em relacionamentos bilaterais sucessivos. Do ponto de vista normativo, as plataformas são baseadas convenção de projetos, típica do \"novo espírito do capitalismo\", cuja lógica de justificação ainda não incorporada no referencial de governança de CGVs. Este trabalho propõe governança por plataforma como um novo tipo de governança, conciliando as abordagens de coordenação e de normatização. A indústria de jogos digitais foi escolhida por ter simultaneamente características de plataforma tecnológica e de distribuição, enfatizadas respectivamente na literatura sobre plataformas industriais e multilaterais. Métodos mistos foram utilizados para a pesquisa em três países (Coreia do Sul, Finlândia e Brasil): questionários aplicados a 235 desenvolvedores de jogos digitais, 73 entrevistas com desenvolvedores, publishers e gestores públicos, e 6 entrevistas com representantes de plataformas, além de pesquisa documental sobre a indústria global. A análise confirmou a importância dos efeitos de rede e que a governança por plataformas possui simultaneamente características de governança presentes em tipos já estabelecidos na literatura e também características distintivas, tanto nos aspectos de coordenação como nos aspectos normativos. Confirmou ainda a aderência da convenção de projetos para compreender este tipo de governança. / Global Value Chain (GVC) Governance studies analyzed a great spectrum of industries last 20 years, but GVC research on information goods industries and the impact of the internet on GVC coordination and normalization is limited.Credit Cards, Operational Systems, Digital Games and Mobile Applications are some classic examples of industries that have platform providers, which mediate suppliers and consumers\' interactions. In recent years, the development of digital platforms in traditional industries possible disruptive movements, known as uberization. Relationships platforms are designed to be multilateral and have network effects to attract a greater volume of participants, which changes the nature of coordination in relation to traditional chains based in successive bilateral relationships. From a normative point of view, the platforms are based on the project convention, typical of the \"new spirit of capitalism\", which justification logic not yet incorporated into the GVCs governance framework. This work proposes governance through platform as a new type of governance and combining the approaches of coordination and standardization. The digital games industry was chosen because both have technology platform characteristics and distribution, respectively emphasized in the literature on industrial and multilateral platforms. Mixed methods were used for research in three countries (South Korea, Finland and Brazil): questionnaires given to 235 developers of digital games, 73 interviews with developers, publishers and public managers, and 6 interviews with representatives of platforms and research documentary on the global industry. The analysis confirmed the importance of network effects and that the governance platform has simultaneously governance characteristics present in types already established in the literature and distinctive characteristicsin both the coordination aspects as the normative aspects. It also confirmed the adherence to the project convention to understand this type of governance.

Eine geringe Wertschätzung von Zwischenhändlern wie in vielen Entwicklungsländern ist auch in Ghana vorzufinden, was einerseits aus geschichtlichen Gründen aber auch aus Unwissenheit entsteht. Der Bereich der Zwischenhändler ist vorwiegend durch Frauen aus ruralen Gebieten betrieben, die Analphabeten und Autodidakten sind. Der Handel ist auf jeder Ebene organisiert, von den Kommunen über die Distriktstädte, die regionalen Hauptstädte und auch über die Grenzen des Landes hinaus. Die Händlerinnen organisieren damit den Warenfluss von den entlegenen Plätzen der Produktion oder aus dem Ausland, um es zu den Märkten mit der Nachfrage in den Ballungszentren und den großen städtischen Märkten zukommen zu lassen. Nichtsdestotrotz werden bei diversen Programmen der Entwicklungsorganisationen die Händler und vor allem Händlerinnen außen vor gelassen, die Konzentration und Aktivitäten wird auf die Produktion und teilweise auf die Handhabung nach der Ernte fokussiert. Der Wertschöpfungsketten-Ansatz verfolgt jedoch per definitionem alle Akteure in der Kette der Wertschöpfung, allein hierbei fehlen die Händler in der Umsetzung. Die Arbeit soll daher aufzeigen, welche Funktionen die Händlerinnen in den drei ausgewählten Fällen übernehmen und wie somit die Entwicklung von Wertschöpfungsketten optimiert werden und letztendlich die beteiligten Händlerinnen zu einer Verbesserung der Wertschöpfungskette beitragen können. / Trade is a widespread occupation for women in West Africa; such as petty traders that are involved with informal trade mainly. The case in Ghana is different as most of these traders are facing hostile treatment and harassment from many sides. Nevertheless, in development cooperation projects, rural economic development and development of its population is often targeted; whereas solely rural development projects have become projects to support value chains and its stakeholders. These value chains start at agricultural production, further on to processing and altering the raw product until its final condition for sale to the end consumer. The entire value chain deals with many diverse actors in rural and urban areas and also diverse areas of economies, such as micro and small enterprises, and other in private sector or public sector. Therefore, development cooperation dealing with value chain enhancement would address all actors. In Ghana, mainly production side and post-harvest management are dealt with and trade or intermediary trade is circumvented. Some projects openly state that they leave out traders from their interventions in value chains. Most prejudices of this type have derived from historical events and official institutions, also a lack of knowledge. Traders are by contrast those who are coordinating streams of goods from beyond borders to supply to domestic markets and vice versa, manage large quantities for export. The reason that women continue to work in trade is that they barely have alternatives.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Negreli Persici Vassallo.pdf: 1702236 bytes, checksum: 5375c6a6ec2d7eda4cf71963f6186269 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-26 / Since trade, production and investments have been controlled and organized by multinationals firms and have been increasing beyond the global product, the interest around global value chains (GVCs) analysis have grown in importance. Our aim in this work is first to present, the main influences and the theoretical framework in which global value chain approach, has been forged as we review the main literature and concepts. In order to recognize the global value chains around the world, we pretend to map them in global, regional and local perspectives. And then, we pretend to focus on how much value Brazil is capturing, which will take us to next question: why the value that has been captured is so limited? Literature explains that Brazil´s participation in GVCs is small due to its size, the low foreign content added in its exports and because of the nature of its exports. However the hypothesis present in this work is that the Brazilian economic specialization is the factor that most explains its positioning, in a way that GVCs framework is not capable to fully comprehend it / Desde que o comércio, a produção e os investimentos passaram a ser controlados e organizados pelas empresas multinacionais e, tendo apresentado crescimento maior do que o produto global, o interesse sobre a abordagem das cadeias globais de valor tem ganhado importância. Nosso objetivo, neste trabalho é o de apresentar as principais influências e o arcabouço teórico em que a abordagem das cadeias globais de valor foram forjadas, na medida em que revisamos sua literatura e conceitos. Com o intuito de compreender como as cadeias globais se dispersam pelo mundo, pretendemos mapeá-las nas esferas global, regional e local. E, então, pretendemos focar no quanto de valor o Brasil está capturando, o que irá nos levar para a pergunta seguinte: porque o valor sendo capturado pelo país é tão limitado? A literatura nos explica que a participação do Brasil nas cadeias globais de valor é baixa em razão do seu tamanho, do baixo conteúdo estrangeiro incorporado em suas exportações e por causa da natureza de suas exportações. No entanto, a hipótese levantada em nosso trabalho é que a especialização econômica do país é o fator que mais explica seu posicionamento, de um modo que a abordagem das cadeias globais de valor não é capaz de compreender totalmenter