Lecture: The Politics of Value
Professor David Levy of the Department of Management and Marketing at UMass Boston will be presenting at the Isenberg School of Management. All are invited to attend.
The topic of this presentation is "The Politics of Value: Power, Strategy and Value in Contested Production Networks."
Abstract: Why do Western consumers spend $3 on a cup of coffee while developing country coffee growers struggle to earn 20cents/pound? I address this question by developing a critical framework on global production networks (GPNs), integrated economic, political, and discursive systems in which market and political power are intertwined. These power relations have geopolitical, racial, gendered, and class-based dimensions - forms of power that can be as pungent as coffee, yet as slippery as a banana. I examine the discursive construction of value chains, the role of geography as a source of stability and tension, and processes of strategic contestation within these production networks.
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This lecture is jointly presented by the Isenberg School of Management Marketing and Management Departments. Also co-sponsored by ORGANIZATION: the critical journal of organization, theory and society.
