Felix Maile B.A. MA

Sowi:docs Fellow, prae.doc

Department of Development Studies
Sensengasse 3/2/2
1090 Vienna

Mail : felix.maile@univie.ac.at                                         
P: +43-1-4277-641-26

Felix Maile is a sowi:docs Fellow with a focus on development economics. In his PhD, he investigates the ways in which financial markets and investors shape the strategies of fashion brands and retailers, and how this affects the value capture of supplier firms in the global apparel industry. His further research interests spread from industrial policy and international trade, to transnational economic governance and global commodity markets.

Research Focus

•    Development Economics
•    Global Value Chains & Production Networks
•    Transnational Corporations
•    Global Apparel Industry
•    Financial Markets & Financialization
•    Industrial Policy
•    International Political Economy

Vita

Publications

  • Maile, F., Staritz, C. (2024). Towards shorter and greener supply chains? Understanding shifts in the global apparel industry. In: Sustainable Supply Chains in Times of Geopolitical Crisis. Research Network Sustainable Supply Chains. (Link to text)
  • Butollo, F., Startiz, C., Maile, F., Wuttke, T. (2024). The end of globalized production? Supply-chain resilience, technological sovereignty and enduring global interdependences in the post-pandemic era. Critical Sociology. (Link to text)
  • Staritz, C., Tröster, B., Grumiller, J., Maile, F. (2022). Price-setting power in global value chains: The cases of price stabilisation in the cocoa sectors in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The European journal of development research, 35(4), 840-868. (Link to text)
  • Maile, F. (2020). Cooperation or confrontation? Public and private governance and smallholders’ incomes in the cocoa sector in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. ÖFSE- Forum (No. 74). (Link to text)
  • Tröster, B., Staritz, C., Grumiller, J., Maile, F. (2019). Commodity dependence, global commodity chains, price volatility and financialisation: Price-setting and stabilisation in the cocoa sectors in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana (No. 62). ÖFSE Working Paper. (Link to text)