Commodity chains
Subtitle: what can we learn from a business history of the rubber chain? (1870-1910)
By: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes
Contributors: Harvard Business School
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 10-089; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 10-089.
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Description: The literature on the rubber boom applied a Dependendist view of rubber production in the Brazilian Amazon. Even though a sizable surplus was generated in the rubber chain, it was mostly appropriated by foreigners. This view is in tune with the Global Commodity Chain approach that argues that manufacturing/core economies absorb the bulk of surplus generated in the commodity chain. This paper challenges both frameworks and asks for a more careful examination of the business history of commodity chains: it is a first step in this direction through an analysis of the relationship between two nodes of the rubber chain.
Notes: "April 2010"--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.