Yves-Marie Rault-ChodankarUniversité de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | UNiVPARIS1 · Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation la Diffusion de l'Information Géographique (PRODIG)
Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar
Doctor of Philosophy
Mapping the new pharmaceutical economy
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Introduction
I'm an Associate Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, specializing in Global South development dynamics. I teach, research at Prodig, and focus on emerging countries in global value chains, especially in the pharmaceutical sector. Contact: yves-marie.rault-chodankar@univ-paris1.fr.
Skills and Expertise
Additional affiliations
September 2015 - August 2018
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- Course 1- Geographic Information Systems ; Course 2- Geography in practice ; Course 3- Research methodology ; Course 4- Geography as a discipline
September 2015 - February 2020
Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains américains et asiatiques (Cessma)
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- Research 1- Skills, motivations, and entrepreneurial strategies of India's pharmaceutical SMEs ; Research 2- Local institutions, social networks, and organization of India's pharmaceutical industry ; Research 3- Structures, norms, positions and governance of the global pharmaceutical market
September 2015 - January 2016
Education
September 2013 - August 2015
July 2012 - June 2013
September 2010 - September 2015
Sciences Po Rennes, Rennes, France
Field of study
- Political Sciences
Publications
Publications (14)
In this chapter, I reflect on the evolution of Mumbai's Sahar International Airport, as depicted in a postcard from the early 1970s. The airport, originally a modest colonial-era structure, served a limited number of passengers and destinations. However, with India's economic growth and liberalization, the airport underwent expansions and privatiza...
La construction et la circulation de normes internationales destinées à réguler les pratiques de fabrication et de commercialisation des médicaments est souvent analysée au prisme des oppositions Nord/Sud, breveté/générique, public/privé, mondial/national/local. Cet article s’appuie sur des entretiens avec des acteurs clés du secteur pharmaceutique...
Since the early 2000s, the development of India's generic industry has generated a lot of hope and interest amongst researchers and practitioners of Global Health. This article documents the ambiguous dreams, aspirations, and hopes of the managers of micro, small, and medium companies involved in manufacturing, marketing, and distributing low-cost...
Global value chain/global production network studies have extensively documented the role of lead firms from the Global North in economic development in the Global South, including as 'manufacturers without factories' (MWFs). However, the role of local firms in sourcing from suppliers has been overlooked. In this article, we report the findings of...
How are small pharmaceutical companies based in India born and developed on a global market dominated by large multinational companies? To address this central question, this PhD thesis draws on the theoretical tools of economic geography and development studies. It relies on several sources and methodologies ; semi-structured interviews conducted...
The rapid development of various institutions supporting company creation in India has the potential to generate economic growth, innovation, and economic development. However, this article shows that the start-up ecosystem has unevenly developed across cities and economic sectors, and has failed to empower the overall population, so far. Using a c...
Since the early 2000s, the Indian State has engaged into a territorial development policy that supports investments along corridors with modernized transport infrastructures and adapted areas to accommodate businesses. Five « industrial or economic corridors » have been formally identified by the government, connecting the country's largest cities....
Since the early 2000s, the Indian State has engaged into a territorial development policy that supports investments along corridors with modernized transport infrastructures and adapted areas to accommodate businesses. Five « industrial or economic corridors » have been formally identified by the government, connecting the country's largest cities....
We explore the engagement of the Indian society with a new place of consumption in India —the shopping mall. Based on extensive interviews with managers and consumers across Indian cities, we address the commercialisation and the consumption of malls as two separate social fields and we highlight the frictions between them. Since the early 2000’s,...
The rapid development of commercial facilities in large Indian metropolitan cities for the past decade illustrates the emergence of middle classes with a common aspiration to consume. Through the exploration of the various social uses of shopping malls in Delhi, this article aims at documenting the particularities of local consumption patterns and...
Since 2009, the social media Twitter provides free access to localization data consisting of geotagged messages sent on the platform. We used this data to highlight their potential contributions to the study of social groups’ activity space. Using a sample of luxury shoppers, we analyzed the daily activity and mobility patterns of the upper middle...
Le développement de la grande distribution et l'internationalisation du secteur commercial en Inde se sont traditionnellement heurtés aux réticences de la société et ont été freinés par la classe politique du pays désireuse de protéger un petit commerce de détail foisonnant, employant une main d'oeuvre nombreuse. L'ouverture et la libéralisation de...
This research focuses on the practical and symbolic role of space in the construction of social hierarchies in the Indian global city through the study of two luxury shopping centres in Delhi: the Khan Market and the DLF Emporio. These two places have in common to attract an affluent social layer, the "upper middle class", which firstly differentia...
This research focuses on the role of space in the contruction of a Turkish community of 400 inhabitants living in the small town of Redon in Brittany (10,000 inhabitants). Despite their diverse social, linguistic and geographical origins, Turkish families show a strong sense of collective identity due to their common experience of uprooting: the st...
Questions
Questions (5)
I am writing a paper on the role of small and medium pharmaceutical firms without factories in the development of India's pharmaceutical industry. There are large numbers of these, they are both involved in marketing and manufacturing, but close to nothing has been written on them.
In other sectors, firms with a similar functioning can be called "manufacturers without factories", "factoryless good producers", or "sales agents". Such organisation is often defined as “a firm which does not conduct manufacturing activities but nonetheless is heavily involved in activities related to the production of goods” (Bernard & Fort, 2015).
Also, any thoughts on what does the emergence of these type of firms mean for economic development in India, Global Production Networks, and contemporary capitalism?
What is the existing literature on the funding criteria of venture capitalists? I am interested in knowing more about the preferred socio-economic profiles of funded entrepreneurs and to what extent the VCs selection biases towards certain profiles/types (and non-inclusiveness) are a problem for the sustainability of a startup ecosystem.
My case study is in India, but studies and conceptualization attempts from studies in other geographical areas could also be good materials to start with.
Teaching students how to successfully create their own company could seem a solution to jobless growth and youth unemployment. However, not all strata of society, in particular in developing countries, have access to education. Even though, people are unequally provided with resources that can serve business creation. Thus, what are the opportunities and challenges we could meet through encouraging entrepreneurship in education systems ?
Entrepreneurship appears to many both as a solution to youth employment and youth empowerment. Around the world, most of the startups are created by young professionals who graduated from business or engineering schools, - and thus who have the largest ressources available for business resources. In order to generate an inclusive growth, what could be the relevant measures, reforms, ideas, that could be used to foster entrepreneurship through education - in particular higher education - and include all social strata in the process ?
Through a series of surveys in elite consumer spaces in Delhi, I have been able to build a residential pattern of Delhi upper class. In order to assess the level of weaIth of those residential areas (I worked at the scale of sub-districts or Tehsil), I would like to compare my data with spatial parameters of wealth. I am not able to find data on residential prices at the scale of my spatial unit. I thought then about other parameters like the number of malls, sports infrastructures, etc... But I am not satisfied with the results. What could be the relevant parameters to assess the level of wealth of sub-districts in Delhi?
