Sociology Emeriti, Gary Gereffi, Ph.D. Has Been Quite Busy

Gary Gereffi, Professor Emeritus of Sociology has been quite busy in terms of both academic and policy-related work on global supply chains. As an originator of the global value chains framework, Professor Gereffi was invited to testify at the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearings on “Implementing Supply Chain Resiliency” in Washington, DC on July 15, 2021.  This summer, Gary was an academic facilitator and commentator for the 2022 Supply Chain Ministerial hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo with 18 partner economies and the European Union on July 19-20, 2022.

Professor Gereffi was guest Professor at Copenhagen Business School, financed by a fellowship from the Otto Mønsted Foundation in Denmark during April-June, 2022.

Recent publications include: 

• “Resilience Decoded: The Role of Firms, Global Value Chains, and the State in COVID-19 Medical Supplies” (Gereffi, Pananond, and Pedersen), California Management Review (2022);
• “Trade Policies, Firm Strategies, and Adaptive Configurations of Global Value Chains” (Gereffi, Lim, and Lee). Journal of International Business Policy, (2021);
• “Innovation, Upgrading, and Governance in Cross-Sectoral Global Value Chains: The Case of Smartphones” (Lee and Gereffi), Industrial and Corporate Change (2021); and
• “What does the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about global value chains? The case of medical supplies” (Gereffi), Journal of International Business Policy (2020).
• China’s New Development Strategies: Upgrading from Above and from Below in Global Value Chains (Gereffi, Bamber, and Fernandez-Stark, eds.), Palgrave-Macmillan, September 2022.