Global Salmon Networks: Unpacking Ecological Contradictions at the Production Stage
Firms’ strategies for turning nature into commodities are heavily oriented toward reducing the ecological indeterminacy of the production process by controlling its biophysical properties to ensure that nature commodification leads to a profitable business. However, research on global production net...
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ftumanchesterpub:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/02ef25be-6ef8-4c6a-8cad-a8ba6039aee8 2023-11-12T04:14:41+01:00 Global Salmon Networks: Unpacking Ecological Contradictions at the Production Stage Irarrazaval, Felipe Bustos-Gallardo, Beatriz 2018 https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/02ef25be-6ef8-4c6a-8cad-a8ba6039aee8 https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2018.1506700 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Irarrazaval , F & Bustos-Gallardo , B 2018 , ' Global Salmon Networks: Unpacking Ecological Contradictions at the Production Stage ' , Economic Geography . https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2018.1506700 global production networks natural resources ecological contradictions territorial configuration value dynamics salmon production article 2018 ftumanchesterpub https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2018.1506700 2023-10-30T09:18:07Z Firms’ strategies for turning nature into commodities are heavily oriented toward reducing the ecological indeterminacy of the production process by controlling its biophysical properties to ensure that nature commodification leads to a profitable business. However, research on global production networks (GPNs) has not focused on firms’ strategies in controlling the impacts of biophysical properties on the production network’s organization. This article aims to fill this gap by reviewing the literature on GPN and resource geographies on nature’s transformation into commodities to show how, in resource-based industries, ecological contradictions establish the territorial embeddedness and value dynamics of the production network. This article empirically examines the production of Atlantic salmon in Chile and how firms’ strategies for handling the ecological contradictions after an economic crisis (infectious salmon anemia virus crisis) changed the spatial production network’s organization and constrained the value-creation process. The results of this work aid in the understanding of firms’ strategies at the production stage as drivers of the continuities and changes in production networks. Finally, the connection between value dynamics and ecological contradictions opens a set of challenges to this research agenda Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon The University of Manchester: Research Explorer Economic Geography 95 2 159 178 |
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Firms’ strategies for turning nature into commodities are heavily oriented toward reducing the ecological indeterminacy of the production process by controlling its biophysical properties to ensure that nature commodification leads to a profitable business. However, research on global production networks (GPNs) has not focused on firms’ strategies in controlling the impacts of biophysical properties on the production network’s organization. This article aims to fill this gap by reviewing the literature on GPN and resource geographies on nature’s transformation into commodities to show how, in resource-based industries, ecological contradictions establish the territorial embeddedness and value dynamics of the production network. This article empirically examines the production of Atlantic salmon in Chile and how firms’ strategies for handling the ecological contradictions after an economic crisis (infectious salmon anemia virus crisis) changed the spatial production network’s organization and constrained the value-creation process. The results of this work aid in the understanding of firms’ strategies at the production stage as drivers of the continuities and changes in production networks. Finally, the connection between value dynamics and ecological contradictions opens a set of challenges to this research agenda |
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Global Salmon Networks: Unpacking Ecological Contradictions at the Production Stage |
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