E-Commerce and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Apparel Value Chain
| dc.contributor.author | Li, Fuyi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Frederick, Stacey | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gereffi, Gary | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-02T19:20:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-02T19:20:47Z | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-01-02T19:20:46Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The economic and social gains from electronic commerce (e-commerce) that promote innovation, industry upgrading and economic growth have been widely discussed. China’s successful experience with e-commerce has had a positive effect in transforming consumer-goods sectors of the economy and motivating economic reform. This article looks at how e-commerce reduces barriers to entry and enables firms to move up the value chain by using the global value chain framework to analyse the impact of e-commerce on the upgrading trajectories and governance structures of China’s apparel industry. For large Chinese brands, e-commerce has enabled end-market diversification. For small- and medium-sized enterprises, e-commerce has facilitated entry with functional upgrading as well as end-market upgrading. In the “two-sided markets” created by platform companies, the “engaged consumers” are the demand side of this market, and “e-commerce focused apparel firms” are the supply side of the new market. Consumers and platforms are more directly involved in value creation within this emerging internet-based structure. | |
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| dc.language | English | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Contemporary Asia | |
| dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1080/00472336.2018.148122 | |
| dc.subject | China; apparel; upgrading; e-commerce; SMEs; Global Value Chains | |
| dc.title | E-Commerce and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Apparel Value Chain | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| duke.contributor.orcid | Gereffi, Gary|0000-0002-0905-5206 | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Duke | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Sociology | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Duke Global Health Institute | |
| pubs.organisational-group | University Institutes and Centers | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Institutes and Provost's Academic Units | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published online |