EGRG Symposia 2007
Annual Symposia 2007
University of Sussex
6th-7th June
Postgraduate Symposium – Economic geographies of globalization and its impacts
Wednesday 6th June
The first day was devoted to short presentations by research students.
Chairs and discussants:
Mia Gray (University of Cambridge).
Adam Swain (University of Nottingham).
Session A
Fidelma Murphy (National University of Ireland) |
Internationally segmented labour markets and the automobile components industry – the effects of spatialisation on capital-labour labour relations in the US and Mexico |
Rodrigo Alegería (London School of Economics) |
The location of MNEs in the UK: sectoraland functional agglomeration |
Guldem Ozatagan (University of Sussex) |
Inter-firm relations and innovation in Global Production Networks: a comparison of Turkish and Polish auto-components clusters |
Paula Hamilton (Queen Mary University of London) |
Logistics providers and production networks: a case study of DHL Exel supply chain in the automotive sector |
Christian Sellar (University of Sussex) |
Towards a local model for theinternationalization of Italian firms in Eastern internationalization of Italian firms in Eastern Europe |
Adrian Duhalt (University of Sussex) |
Public petrochemical industry in Mexico: economic drivers and current performance |
Session B
Paul Sissons (University College London) |
The longer-term impacts of deindustrialisation in the Northumberland coalfield and the Monongahela Valley steel towns |
Filipe Lage de Sousa (London School of Economics) |
Regional disparities of industry wages, transport costs and trade shocks |
José M. Roche Reyna (University of Sussex) |
A multidimensional approach to social inequality and its determinants: distance and social exclusion in Venezuela |
Thomas Hastings (University of Aberdeen) |
Labour, agency and social reproduction: the case of call centres |
Mirela Barbu (University of Sussex) |
Resisting the ‘Third Way’: the End of the Italian ‘Old Deal’ and possible lessons for Romania |
Annual Symposium
Global commodity chains, global value chains and global production networks: governance and development
Thursday 7th June
Session A
Chair: Mick Dunford (University of Sussex)
Neil Coe (University of Manchester) |
Global Production Networks: the developing research agenda |
John Humphrey (University of Sussex) |
Governance in global value chains OR governance outside of global value chains |
Session B
Chair: Mia Gray (University of Cambridge)
Stephanie Barrientos (University of Sussex) |
Do workers benefit from ethical trade? Codes of labour practice in global production systems |
Alex Hughes (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) |
Ethical consumption, global value chains, ethical consumption, global value chains, and knowledgeable spaces of responsible and knowledgeable spaces of responsible governance |
Session C
Chair: Adam Swain (University of Nottingham).
Adrian Smith (Queen Mary University of London) |
Global value chains, De-localisation and the uneven upgrading of the east european clothing industry |
Suzy Reimer (University of Southampton) |
Geographers and commodities |
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