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A man on a hill, Jens Christiansen. Photo.

Jens Christiansen

Postdoctoral fellow

A man on a hill, Jens Christiansen. Photo.

Value capture amidst crisis? A geographical political economy perspective on value chain resilience

Author

  • Jens Christiansen

Summary, in English

How can different value chain actors mitigate threats or benefit from moments of volatility? This question has become essential as global value chains are restructuring, with policymakers and management scholars calling for increasing value chain resilience. Surveying geographers’ recent contributions, this paper develops a geographical political economy of value chain resilience, which helps explain immanent value struggles' relation to collaboration, conflict, and contingency. The paper does so, first, by elaborating on circulating and fixed capital for various fractions of capital. Second, the paper shows the antithetical position of labour and biophysical environments within and beyond value chains’ resilience.

Department/s

  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)

Publishing year

2025

Language

English

Publication/Series

Progress in Human Geography

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Human Geography

Keywords

  • complexity
  • crisis
  • geographical political economy
  • global production networks
  • global value chains
  • resilience
  • uncertainty

Status

Inpress

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0309-1325