Sarpong, David, Ofosu, George, Botchie, David and Meissner, Dirk (2023). A phoenix rising? The regeneration of the Ghana garment and textile industry. Socio-Economic Review ,
Abstract
Some African countries’ premier industries, such as textiles, garments and agro-processing, which floundered in the face of market liberalization and stiff competition from cheap imports, are now going through regenerative changes, with some beginning to tell a cautionary tale of a leap upwards. Focusing on the Ghana garment and textile industry, we draw on a framework that integrates social practices and everyday general-purpose technologies to explore the rise, decline and regeneration of the industry. Explicating a fine analysis of how the performative reconfiguration of social practices and functional sources of innovation and technologies may combine to support innovation-driven growth, our study sheds light on how loosely connected actors within a hitherto floundering industry can learn to transform their situated practices to drive their ‘industrial regeneration’. Implications for the theory and practice of industrial regeneration are outlined.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad022 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Marketing & Strategy |
Additional Information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | China-made technologies,Ghana,garment and textile industry,social practice,industrial regeneration |
Publication ISSN: | 1475-147X |
Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2024 15:48 |
Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2023 11:18 |
Full Text Link: |
https://academi ... mwad022/7153301 |
Related URLs: | PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2023-05-05 |
Published Online Date: | 2023-05-05 |
Accepted Date: | 2023-04-12 |
Authors: |
Sarpong, David
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0000-0002-1533-4332)
Ofosu, George Botchie, David Meissner, Dirk |