Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Iizuka, Michiko 
Author-Email: iizuka@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Standards as a platform for innovation and learning in the global economy: a 
	 case study of Chilean salmon farming industry
Abstract: Conventionally, standards are considered as a governance tool in the 
	 production system in a one-directional and hierarchical relationship 
	 between foreign trans-national corporations (TNCs) or global buyers on 
	 one hand and subsidiaries and producers on the other. They were 
	 considered as transmitting necessary specifications of goods (codified 
	 knowledge) to the producers. Despite the fact that this process begins 
	 with a one-way power relationship and associated flow of knowledge and 
	 standards, such one-way flows may become consolidated into two-way 
	 interlinkages when power balances themselves reverse with the 
	 development of collective capability in catching-up countries. In such a 
	 context, standards increasingly act as a catalyst for creating 
	 collective interfaces where diverse knowledge from horizontal and 
	 vertical relationships (local and global, tacit and codified, and buyer 
	 and producer) intercept and converge to promote interactions and 
	 learning for those involved. The Chilean salmon farming industry is 
	 examined to understand how standards compliance enhanced collective 
	 capability.
Classification-JEL: L15, L66, O13
Keywords: Standards, Industrial standards, Capability, Governance,
	 Fishing industry, Chile, Catching up 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2009
Number: 004
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2009/wp2009-004.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2009004