Industrial development in buyer-driven networks: the garment industry in Vietnam and Sri Lanka
比较越南和斯里兰卡服装产业在买方驱动网络中的升级过程，发现利润下降、国内联系薄弱，并探讨这种结果是偶然还是网络固有缺陷。
The garment industry in Vietnam has been included in global buyer-driven networks since the 1990 s. Industrial upgrading takes place, but the changes are generally small and incremental. Profit margins tend to decline and backward linkages in the home country are few. The garment industry in Sri Lanka was included in buyer-driven networks already in the 1980 s and shares this experience. The objective is to explain what processes and mechanisms that lead to this outcome and discuss in what respects it is a result of contingencies and in what respects impediments to industrial development are inherent to buyer-driven networks.