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Title: | A phoenix rising? The regeneration of the Ghana garment and textile industry |
Authors: | Sarpong, D Ofosu, G Botchie, D Meissner, D |
Keywords: | China-made technologies;Ghana;garment and textiles industry;social practice;industrial regeneration |
Issue Date: | 5-May-2023 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Citation: | David Sarpong, et. al. (2023) ‘A phoenix rising? The regeneration of the Ghana garment and textile industry’ in Socio-Economic Review. Vol. 0 (ahead of print)., pp. 1 – 25. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad022. |
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. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/26932 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad022 |
ISSN: | 1475-1461 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: David Botchie https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2776-6941 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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