Scientific paper
Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda
Stefano Ponte, Jennifer Blair, Mark Dallas
2023
#Social and working conditions
#Sustainability standards
Published in Global Networks Journal
Download publicationPower is a central, but largely undertheorized, concept for scholars of global value chains (GVCs). In this introduction to a special issue on power and inequality in GVCs, the authors summarize the key insights from the articles gathered here and explain how the collection advances our understanding of the types and forms of power operating in GVCs and their effect on different dimensions of inequality.