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Going Green

Ökologische Aufwertungsprozesse und Koordinationsstrukturen in den Wertschöpfungsketten der indischen Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
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Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie
From the journal Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie Volume 56 Issue 1-2

Going green - environmental upgrading and value chain coordination in the Indian automotive industry. Previous debates have linked environmental upgrading processes in global value chains above all to the influence of powerful lead firms from developed countries. In this paper, we argue that the Indian automobile sector, too, shows a growing tendency for more environmental protection. However, the decisive impetus is often not given by international lead firms.Applying the concept of global value chains, this paper aims to identify both the dominating coordination mechanisms in the Indian automobile chain, and the strategies of different actors for environmental upgrading. The empirical section draws on findings from 130 qualitative interviews with eight vehicle manufactures, 54 component suppliers and several industry experts held between 2009 and 2011. Our results indicate that Indian vehicle manufacturers are presently more pivotal to driving “green” supply chains than international players. Our findings suggest that especially the strong technical and organizational support provided by Indian lead firms is the crucial factor to push component suppliers to improve their environmental performance. On this account, the recent debate on greening of supply chains seems to be led too much from a western perspective. Rather, it appears that many environmental upgrading processes in automobile supply chains occur independently of western lead firms. In fact, they are mostly initiated and implemented by local lead firms.

Keywords: environmental upgrading; global value chains; automotive industry; supply management; ISO 14001; India
Online erschienen: 2015-10-21
Erschienen im Druck: 2012-10-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw.2012.0016
Keywords for this article
environmental upgrading; global value chains; automotive industry; supply management; ISO 14001; India

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Editorial. Informal dynamics of economic processes
  2. The world’s factory and informal ties – organisation of firm networks in the electronics industry in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China
  3. Firm characteristics and informal governance of business operations in the Pearl River Delta, China
  4. Dealing with insecurity
  5. Workplace quality and labour turnover in the electronics industry of the Pearl River Delta, China
  6. Strategies of using social proximity and organizational proximity in product innovation
  7. Urban governance and informality in China’s Pearl River Delta
  8. Buchbesprechungen
  9. Evolutionäre Wirtschaftsgeographie
  10. Generalized Darwinism, group selection and evolutionary economic geography
  11. Regionales Wissen und die räumliche Evolution der westdeutschen Lasersystembranche
  12. Emergence through branching and evolution
  13. Rejuvenating old industries in new contexts
  14. Buchbesprechungen 2
  15. The heterogeneity of internationalisation in knowledge intensive business services
  16. Going Green
  17. Postfordistische Energiepolitiken?
  18. Zur Diskussion. Post-Wachstums-Ökonomien – (k)ein Thema für die Wirtschaftsgeographie?
  19. Rezensionsartikel. Neue Wirtschaftsgeographien?
  20. Buchbesprechungen 3
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