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UNINA9910299422203321 |
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Autore |
Strasser Joseph |
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Titolo |
Bangladesh's Leather Industry : Local Production Networks in the Global Economy / / by Joseph Strasser |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2015.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Collana |
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Springer Geography, , 2194-315X |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic geography |
Human geography |
Economics |
Management science |
Business |
Economic Geography |
Human Geography |
Economics, general |
Business and Management, general |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Conceptual Approaches -- Methodology -- The Leather Industry in Bangladesh -- The Leather Value Chain in Bangladesh – Results of a Qualitative Analysis -- Conclusion -- Appendices. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study provides an overview of how the Bangladeshi leather value chain is organised and governed. It analyses how the leather processing and leather goods/footwear subsectors are integrated into the global market and to what extent informal arrangements including illicit practices are conducive to global market entry. Power relations are dissected along the value chain, in order to analyse how local producers adapt to upholding competitiveness. The results of the work show the need to devise upgrading strategies which pay heed to the reality of informal dynamics in a global value chain (GVC) to improve the local producers’ competitiveness. The GVC perspective was combined with considerations on upgrading, subcontracting, |
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