Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Dev Nathan, Meenu Tewari, Sandip Sarkar -- The changing landscape of contract manufacturers in the electronics industry global value chain / Gale Raj-Reichert -- Gaining process rents in the apparel industry: incremental improvements in labour and other management practices / Dev Nathan and Harsh -- New Economic geographies on manufacturing in China / Shengjun Zhu -- The Philippines: a sequential approach to upgrading in manufacturing global value chains -- Penny Bamber [and others] -- Learning sequences in lower tiers of India's automotive value chain / Meenu Tewari -- Innovation and learning of latecomers: a case study of Chinese telecom-equipment companies / Peilei Fan -- From the phased manufacturing programme to frugal engineering: some initial propositions / Nasir Tyabji -- Industrial upgrading in the apparel value chain: the Sri Lanka experience / Prema-chandra Athukorala -- Strategic change in Indian IT majors: a challenge / Neetu Ahmed -- Moving from OEM to OBM? Upgrading of the Chinese mobile phone industry / Huasheng Zhu, Fan Xu and Qingcan He -- Indian pharmaceutical industry: policy and instutitional challenges of moving from manufacturing generics to drug discovery / Dinesh Abrol and Nidhi Singh -- Revisiting the miracle: South Korea's industrial upgrading from a global value chain perspective / Joon Lee, Sang-Hoon Lee and Gwanho Park -- Evolutionary demand, innovation and development / Smita Srinvivas -- GVCs and development policy: vertically specialized industrialization / Dev Nathan