Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Map of Morocco
- Map of Tunisia
- I THE FRAMEWORK
- 1 Rethinking Globalization and Business Politics
- 2 Globalization and Integration in International Apparel Manufacturing Networks: The New Politics of Industrial Development
- II THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
- III GLOBALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
- Appendix A Methodological Note and List of Interviewees
- Appendix B Standardized Questionnaire for Textile and Apparel Industrialists and Factory Managers
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Rethinking Globalization and Business Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Map of Morocco
- Map of Tunisia
- I THE FRAMEWORK
- 1 Rethinking Globalization and Business Politics
- 2 Globalization and Integration in International Apparel Manufacturing Networks: The New Politics of Industrial Development
- II THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
- III GLOBALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
- Appendix A Methodological Note and List of Interviewees
- Appendix B Standardized Questionnaire for Textile and Apparel Industrialists and Factory Managers
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We asked [industry executives and retailers] their sourcing plans beyond 2005. The answer was they would source from China and not-China. They would source 70 percent to 80 percent from China and 20 percent to 30 percent from not-China. So, right there, you do not have globalization. You have China and the heart-stopping fear wondering whether your nation is to be one of the 20 percent or 30 percent in the land of not-China.
Mike Todaro, Managing Director, American Apparel Producers' Network (Todaro 2003)In the past, I was well received by European clients, but now they give me “seven minutes.” I am forced to wait in line with Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Asians to show my wares. Then I am given seven minutes to present my line and that's it.
Author interview, textile firm owner, Ain Sebaa, Morocco, January 18, 2000.These are hard times for manufacturers in developing countries, particularly for countries that are “not-China.” Since the 1970s, more and more Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries have staked their industrial development strategies on exports of low-value-added manufactures such as apparel, making competition for world market share especially fierce. In the 1980s and 1990s, many countries were obliged to dismantle protectionist trade policies as part of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and international trade agreements, threatening domestic manufacturing bases and pressuring local firms, business associations, and governments to find viable ways to promote industrial upgrading in an open economy.
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- Globalization and Business Politics in Arab North AfricaA Comparative Perspective, pp. 3 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007