Looking Beyond Global Value Chains in Capacity Development: The Case of the IT-Enabled Service (ITES) Sector in South Africa
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This paper examines the role of learning avenues for capability development in the ITenabled services in developing countries. It sheds light on the unexplored relationship between global value chain (GVC) learning and national innovation systems (NIS) in capability development. It explores learning avenues beyond GVCs, namely in local and regional value chains. Based on data collected from 47 interviews of IT-enabled service providers in South Africa, we find that NIS influences firms’ capacity to access and adapt learning from GVCs, whereas the latter has the potential to strengthen NIS. Secondly, the majority of South African service providers in this sample do not participate in GVCs but participate in local and regional value chains instead, which are distinct yet important learning avenues and potential pathways for entering GVCs of IT-enabled services. Cet article explore le rôle des axes d’apprentissage au-delà des chaı̂nes de valeur mondiales (CVM) pour les entreprises des pays en développement, en mettant l’accent sur les capacités de gestion des ressources humaines et la spécialisation dans le secteur des services informatiques. En nous basant sur les données recueillies auprès de 44 entretiens de fournisseurs de services informatiques en Afrique du Sud, nous présentons deux résultats. Premièrement, le renforcement des capacités ne se limite pas à l’apprentissage dans les CVM, mais s’appuie également sur les ressources internes des entreprises et sur le système d’innovation local. Ensuite, la majorité des fournisseurs de services sud-africains participent aux chaı̂nes de valeur locales et régionales, offrent des opportunités d’apprentissage supplémentaires et ouvrent des voies potentielles vers les chaı̂nes de valeur mondiales. Ces résultats suggèrent une image plus nuancée du rôle des CVM dans l’apprentissage et dans la mise à niveau des capacités pour les entreprises des pays en développement. The European Journal of Development Research (2017). doi:10.1057/s41287-017-0110-7
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تاریخ انتشار 2018