Creating & Capturing Value
in the Global Apparel Industry

The Creating & Capturing Value research project identifies and explains the distributional outcomes in apparel global supply chains among large apparel brands and retailers, their shareholders, their supplier firms across Asia, Africa and Latin America, and the workers employed in these supplier firms.

• Our research examines the position of Ethiopia and Kenya in the sourcing portfolio of transnational supplier firms, how their subsidiaries in Ethiopia and Kenya operate, and the implications for value capture at the global, national, and worker levels.

• We show how distributional outcomes between capital and labor at the national level are shaped by dynamics in global supply chains as well as how workers perceive, organize and act in response to their position in these chains.

• We analyze how value created in apparel global supply chains, also called global value chains (GVCs), is distributed among capital markets and shareholders of apparel brands and retailers.  

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Creating & Capturing Value is a collaborative research project between researchers in Europe and East Africa, funded by DANIDA through the Danish Consultative Research Committee for Development (FFU) and the Danish Fellowship Centre.