Smes in Indian Textiles: The Impact of Globalization in a Developing Market

ISBN-13: 9781137444554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 319 str.

Anoo Anna Anthony; Mary Joseph

Opis

SMEs in Indian Textiles examines how globalisation in its transformative influence affects both firms and workers in the developing economies. Firms are able, through planned actions or gradual improvements, to take up specialised or value enhancing activities. Workers' experience and learning of practices and processes for internationally certified products enable the skills and rigor of innovation and learning-by-doing to be transferred down the value chain. This has an indirect and diffusing effect not only on the fortunes of specific companies, but also affects the industries and regions they are a part of.

These effects may be negative if the phenomenon of immiserising growth is imminent. This is the phenomenon faced by developing country firms when overall economic activity increases, but the return to this activity falls, which can happen when export prices fall faster than export volumes increase, or when the terms of trade become more stringent and expensive. Firms in developing countries like India may not be engaging in activities that truly benefit them in the process of their integration with global supply chains.

Exploring the handloom cluster's value chain and its linkages, SMEs in Indian Textiles examines whether firms in the cluster gained from their association with global buyers over this extended period, and in what ways. It provides important research on whether high road growth has been made possible due to the continued integration into the value chains of retailers, or whether there has been a slow redundancy in the importance of their functions and benefits.

Spis treści

PART I: EVOLVING PATTERNS OF EXPANDING TRADE 1 Firms Adapting to Global Marketplaces - Introduction 2 The Phenomenon of Globalization in Trade 3 Theorizations of Economic Geography PART II: THE INDIAN TEXTILE POLICY AND SMEs 4 Indian Textile and Apparel Industry 5 SMEs in Indian Textiles 6 Kannur- History, Background and Trade Linkages PART III: : ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK AND STUDY DESIGN 7 Global Value Chain Analysis Framework 8 The Study of Linkages using Mixed Methods 9 Presenting the Analysis of Qualitative Data PART IV: REFLEXIVE RECORDS OF EVIDENCE 10 Examining Emergent Codes through Constant Comparison 11 Examining Apriori Codes through Cross Case Analysis of Case Reports 12 Analysis of Buyer Perceptions and Buying Functions PART V: IMPACTS, OUTCOMES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 13 Analyzing the Collective Perception by Survey of SMEs 14 Developing Meta Inferences From Case Studies and Surveys 15 Conclusion: Possible Strategies Against Self Limiting Growth

O autorze

Dr Anoo Anna Anthony is Associate Professor at Fisat Business School, Mahatma Gandhi University, India.

Dr Mary Joseph is Dean and Professor at Bharatmata Institute of Management Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, India.