Overview
- First comprehensive study of Bangladesh's leather industry within economic geography
- A special chapter on the festival of sacrifice (Eid-ul-Azha) informs about its impact on the leather industry
- Shows how and why leather processors turn to informal (and illicit) practices and strategies in three areas that are crucial for global market entry: chemical imports, environmental regulation, leather exports
- A thorough analysis of development constraints and strategies to improve the industry's competitiveness provides local authorities and development organisations with points of intervention
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
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About this book
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, middlemen and informality to adequately analyse the complexity of the transactions in the chain. The data of this study are drawn from empirical field studies in Dhaka, Bangladesh and other sections of the international leather value chain during the time period of 2010 to 2014. A qualitative research approach was complemented with quantitative methods.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bangladesh's Leather Industry
Book Subtitle: Local Production Networks in the Global Economy
Authors: Joseph Strasser
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22548-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22547-0Published: 15 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37063-7Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22548-7Published: 03 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 286
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Geography, Human Geography, Economics, general, Business and Management, general