(Hand)Building Value: What’s In a Name?

As the blog's subtitle - "handbuilt bikes and global value chains" - tries to indicate, in its widest sense this new project will center on handmade bike builders and how they are situated within the global bicycle trade. That alone is a tall order...but the real ambition is even broader: to use the position of …

Getting Started

First post here at the new blog, though it's not going to be monumental in the least! Though I've been blogging elsewhere - very sporadically - over the years, I'm using the advent of a new project as a moment to make a fresh start on the blogging. I need and want to be writing …