Knitting Asia, Weaving Development

1. Introduction: Globalization, Value Chain Governance and Supplier Experimentation (Joonkoo Lee, Hyunji Kwon and Hyun-Chin Lim). - 2. Expanding Overseas, Becoming Multinational, and Moving up the Chain: Three Waves of Globalization in the Korean Apparel Industry (Joonkoo Lee and Hyun-Chin Lim). - 3. Korea's Multinational Garment Suppliers: Growth through Disintermediation (Solee Shin). - 4. Toward a Bipolar Apparel GVC? From the Perspective of First-Tier Suppliers (Hyunji Kwon, Jinsun Bae, Joonkoo Lee and Sun Wook Chung). - 5. A Hidden Champion? An Experimental Journey for Digital Integration of a First-Tier Supplier in the Apparel GVCs (Hyunji Kwon and Seri No). - 6. Formalizing Foreign Manufacturer Status While Deepening Local Embeddedness: Korean Manufacturers in Myanmar's Export-oriented Apparel Industry (Jinsun Bae).

Joonkoo Lee is Associate Professor of Organization Studies, School of Business at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea. His main areas of research include globalization and development, specifically global and regional value chains, value chain governance, and economic and social upgrading in apparel, electronics and cultural/creative industries, focusing on Asia. He co-authored a book titled Mobile Asia Capitalisms, Value Chains and Mobile Telecommunication in Asia (Seoul National University Press, 2018). His work has appeared in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Labour Review, Journal of Business Ethics, critical perspectives on international business, and Journal of International Business Policy. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University and M.A. and B.A. from Seoul National University.Hyunji Kwon is a Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University. Her research interests center around flexible employment arrangements, changes in organizational-level employment relations, and labor market inequality. As the principal investigator (PI), she has recently completed a multi-year research project funded by Korea's National Research Foundation, which examined the roles and strategic actions of globalizing actors in the complex and turbulent fields of transnational corporations and global production networks. Currently, she is paying close attention to the evolving work contracts and norms, as well as the precarity and resilience of workers in the labor market with a particular focus on the creative and knowledge economy industries. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Before joining Seoul National University, she worked as a research fellow at Korea Labor Institute and as a lecturer in the Department of Management at King's College London.Hyun-Chin Lim is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and