TY - JOUR AU - Bitama, Pierre Claver AU - Lebailly, Philippe AU - Ndimanya, Patrice AU - Burny, Philippe PY - 2019/10/24 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Global Value Chain Governance and Relation between Local Actors in the Burundian Tea Sector JF - International Review of Management and Marketing JA - IRMM VL - 9 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://econjournals.com/index.php/irmm/article/view/8857 SP - 105-111 AB - <p>In the context of globalization, the success of a firm to sell its products on international and regional markets depends on the type of governance exercised in a given sector. This article mobilizes a theoretical framework of global value chain governance to analyze the type of governance exercised in the tea sector in Burundi. A qualitative analysis of data from a survey of 120 small tea farmers in the Ijenda and Teza areas reveals that control and coordination in the sector is ensured by captive governance. In addition, a stagnation of the price of the green leaf tea over a decade generates a lack of interest in the tea farming out on small farming areas. Only 25% of small tea farmers in Ijenda and 36% in Teza want an extension.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: captive governance, market governance, global value chain, Tea.</p><p><strong>JEL Classifications</strong>: O13, O21, P32, P42</p><p>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.32479/irmm.8857">https://doi.org/10.32479/irmm.8857</a></p> ER -