Journal articleInternational Business Review · March 1, 2026
Since the mid-2010s, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have operated in an increasingly turbulent international business (IB) environment characterized by geoplitical frictions, trade protectionism, intensified FDI screening, and assertive techno-nationalis ...
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Journal articleJournal of International Business Policy · September 1, 2025
In response to recent socio-economic, environmental, and geopolitical disruptions, governments have reoriented industrial policy from a prosperity-driven to a security-driven agenda based on strengthening strategic supply chains. We provide a framework tha ...
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Journal articleForo Internacional · May 26, 2025
La relación de México con Estados Unidos (EE.UU.) ha sido excepcionalmente cercana durante muchas décadas. Los llamados recientes en EE.UU. pidiendo una nueva ola de “nearshoring” para ayudar a que la economía estadounidense reconstruya sus cadenas ...
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Journal articleColumbia FDI Perspectives · September 18, 2023
New industrial policies should not aim for self-sufficiency, but rather for more secure supply chains that rely on diversified international suppliers and some domestic suppliers. Because major economies are pursuing similar goals, new industrial policies ...
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Journal articleJournal of Industrial and Business Economics · March 1, 2023
Climate crises are being experienced all over the world and appear to be accelerating as “extreme weather” events become the “new normal.” In today’s world economy, where trade and production activities are internationally dispersed and prone to disruption ...
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Journal articleColumbia FDI Perspectives · January 9, 2023
Post-pandemic, companies have four main options to reduce rigidity and increase resilience in global supply chains: make them more domestic (e.g., reshoring, stockpiles); make them shorter (e.g., reducing the physical distances traversed by supply chains t ...
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Journal articleGlobal Networks · October 1, 2022
New digital technologies based on the internet of things and artificial intelligence play centre stage in contemporary discussions about the prospects for economic development and the future of work. This article summarizes theoretical and empirical contri ...
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Journal articleEnvironment and Planning A · September 1, 2022
In this study, we introduce a unique longitudinal dataset from the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance Annual Survey (IMEFAS) to assess how micro and small enterprises (MSEs) partake in the global economy by tapping into global value chains (GVCs). The ...
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Journal articleCambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society · July 1, 2022
This article assesses how the reshoring of manufacturing activities by micro and small enterprises (MSEs) affects the performances of co-located subcontracting networks and the reconfiguration of global value chains (GVCs). We utilize quantitative microdat ...
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Journal articleCalifornia Management Review · February 1, 2022
This article examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on resilience. Resilience is not a one-dimensional concept but has different meanings at the levels of the firm (operational efficiency), the global value chain (appropriate governance), and the na ...
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Journal articleGrowth and Change · December 1, 2021
The article develops an analytical framework for an adaptable and evolutionary pro-growth coalition led by local government to understand regional industrial transformation in developing China. Taking Kunshan as an example, we argue that evolutionary and a ...
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Journal articleInternational Labour Review · December 1, 2021
Global production and trade organized in global value chains (GVCs) have structured labour governance and the conditions of work for multiple decades. Since the early 2000s, a series of new economic, technological and political disruptions, along with the ...
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Journal articleJournal of International Business Policy · December 1, 2021
The recent U.S.–China trade conflicts cast new light on the role of trade policies in global value chains (GVCs). Contrary to the expectation that trade restrictions lead to the shrinking or disruption of GVCs, our article posits that the unintended conseq ...
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Journal articleIndustrial and Corporate Change · February 1, 2021
The fourth industrial revolution challenges the existing understanding of innovation and upgrading in the global economy. It blurs traditional sectoral boundaries based on distinctive products and technologies and calls into question a traditional global v ...
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Journal articleJournal of International Business Policy · August 25, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a dramatic shortage in the medical supplies needed to treat the virus due to a massive surge in demand as the disease circled the globe during the first half of 2020. Prior to the crisis, there was an interdependence of tra ...
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Journal articleGlobal Strategy Journal · August 1, 2020
Research summary: We contend that a synthesis between the literatures on global strategy and global value chains (GVCs) is mutually beneficial. A typology of four themes—managed cross-border activities, network optimization, bottom-up upgrading, and strate ...
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Journal articleJournal of International Business Policy · September 1, 2019
This article argues that the global value chains (GVC) perspective bridges the firm-specific, private-sector and country-level, societal divide that has separated the international business and international economics literatures. A key mechanism that expl ...
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Journal articleJournal of Contemporary Asia · January 1, 2019
The economic and social gains from electronic commerce (e-commerce) that promote innovation, industry upgrading and economic growth have been widely discussed. China’s successful experience with e-commerce has had a positive effect in transforming consumer ...
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Journal articleTransnational Corporations · January 1, 2019
Costa Rica has sought to improve its position in the global economy by prioritizing export growth in two high-tech manufacturing industries led by foreign direct investment (FDI): electronics and medical devices. We use a global value chain (GVC) perspecti ...
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Journal articleJournal of Contemporary Asia · June 19, 2018
The economic and social gains from electronic commerce (e-commerce) that promote innovation, industry upgrading and economic growth have been widely discussed. China’s successful experience with e-commerce has had a positive effect in transforming consumer ...
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Journal articleComercio Exterior · August 31, 2017
Con el arribo de Donald Trump a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, se intensificaron las especulaciones sobre el futuro del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN). En respuesta a una noticia aparecida a finales de abril de este ano, donde s ...
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Journal article · 2017
I distretti industriali sono molto cambiati da come descritti nelle iniziali opere di Beccatini e colleghi, evolvendosi in forme diverse tra loro. Tre traiettorie evolutive sembrano poter descrivere tale multiforme, recente, trasformazione: declino, gerarc ...
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Journal articleJournal of Business Ethics · January 24, 2016
The burgeoning literature on global value
chains (GVCs) has recast our understanding of how
industrial clusters are shaped by their ties to the international
economy, but within this context, the role played by
corporate social responsibility (CSR) continu ...
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Journal articleBoletín Informativo Techint · December 10, 2015
En este artículo se analiza la posición de América Latina y el Caribe en las cadenas globales de valor (CGV), con énfasis en el impacto de China sobre la competitividad de la región. Mientras que Brasil, los países andinos y otras economías de América del ...
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Journal article · December 10, 2015
En este artículo se analiza la posición de América Latina y el Caribe en las cadenas globales de valor (CGV), con énfasis en el impacto de China sobre la competitividad de la región. Mientras que Brasil, los países andinos y otras economías de América del ...
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Journal articleCambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society · November 1, 2015
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been a mixed blessing for economic development. While exports to the US economy have increased, dependency may hinder economic growth if countries do not diversify or upgrade before temporary provisions ...
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Journal articleJournal of Banking and Financial Economics · August 17, 2015
Risk is inherent to the pursuit of opportunity. This paper surveys the recent literature and looks at the risks and opportunities firms and their workers face in the global value chains. First, it examines the risk-sharing mechanisms that firms provide fro ...
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Journal articleCritical Perspectives on International Business · July 6, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the global value chain (GVC) approach to understand the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the changing patterns of global trade, investment and production, and its impact on econom ...
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Journal articleCambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society · 2015
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been a mixed blessing for economic development. While exports to the US economy have increased, dependency may hinder economic growth if countries do not diversify or upgrade before temporary provisions ...
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Journal articleElectricity Journal · January 1, 2014
A wider collaboration framework among the various value chain actors may provide a technology advancement pathway. However, for this collaboration to occur, lead coal companies need to expand their business model beyond coal mining into the downstream coal ...
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Journal articleReview of International Political Economy · January 1, 2014
Contemporary globalization has been marked by significant shifts in the organization and governance of global industries. In the 1970s and 1980s, one such shift was characterized by the emergence of buyer-driven and producer-driven commodity chains. In the ...
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Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2012
The rise of private food standards has brought forth an ongoing debate about whether they work as a barrier for smallholders and hinder poverty reduction in developing countries. This paper uses a global value chain approach to explain the relationship bet ...
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Journal articleJournal of Supply Chain Management · July 1, 2012
The global value chain (GVC) concept has gained popularity as a way to analyze the international expansion and geographical fragmentation of contemporary supply chains and value creation and capture therein. It has been used broadly in academic publication ...
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Journal articleInternational Labour Review · December 1, 2011
A key challenge in promoting decent work worldwide is how to improve the position of both firms and workers in value chains and global production networks driven by lead firms. This article develops a framework for analysing the linkages between the econom ...
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Journal articleWork and Occupations · May 1, 2011
The industrialization of developing countries has fundamentally transformed work, employment, and labor for millions. Despite the industrialization of most of the developing world, we present evidence that Latin America has experienced stagnating industria ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Technological Learning Innovation and Development · January 1, 2011
This article uses the global value chain approach to analyse the upgrading trajectories of leading apparel exporters adapting to the end of textile and apparel quotas and the economic recession. These events have been coupled by the consolidation and recon ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Technological Learning Innovation and Development · January 1, 2011
This article analyses the offshore services industry using the global value chain approach. This industry has grown at a rapid pace over the last decade, driven principally by the search of businesses to reduce costs by unbundling and offshoring corporate ...
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Journal article · October 29, 2010
There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manne ...
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Journal articleBusiness and Politics · October 28, 2010
Corporate codes of conduct, product certifications, process standards, and other voluntary, non-governmental forms of private governance have proliferated in the last two decades. These innovations are a response to social pressures unleashed by globalizat ...
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Journal articleInternational Migration Review · June 1, 2010
While the United States welcomes foreign-born students and trainees and, less warmly, temporary workers such as H-1B visa holders, it places an array of requirements, obstacles, and delays upon persons who would like to make the U.S. their permanent home. ...
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Journal articleEcology and Society · January 1, 2010
There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manne ...
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Journal articleAnnual Review of Sociology · December 1, 2009
Wal-Mart has been both praised and pilloried as a template for twenty-first century capitalism. Therein lies the challenge in analyzing the world's largest retailer. We examine the sociological impact of Wal-Mart in terms of four themes: its business model ...
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Journal articleEuropean Sociological Review · February 1, 2009
China and Mexico have both pursued export-oriented development strategies in the global economy, but with different implications for national development and industrial upgrading. While Mexico has been the paradigm for the neoliberal ('Washington consensus ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Technological Learning Innovation and Development · January 1, 2009
This paper deals with the North American automotive value chain and analyses the prospects for Canadian automotive sector upgrading. The size and importance of the automotive industry in Canada’s Ontario Province is a legacy of its historic ties to the ‘Bi ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development · January 2009
This paper lays out the main features of the global automotive industry
and identifies several important trends. A boom in developing country
sales and production has not yet overshadowed the importance of existing
markets in developed regions. Regional ...
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Journal articleIkonomicheski Izsledvania · December 1, 2008
How should we study and how should we explain industrial and firm upgrading in the host economy? This article builds on these questions by focusing on the textile and apparel industry and firms in Turkey and Bulgaria between 1991 and 2005, and it relies on ...
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Journal articleJournal of Engineering Education · January 1, 2008
This article challenges the commonly cited statistics for engineering graduates in the United States, China, and India. Our research shows that the gap between the number of engineers and related technology specialists produced in the United States versus ...
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Journal articleTempo Social · June 2007
The global economy is changing rapidly, and China, India, and Mexico represent particularly interesting cases because of their divergent development models. Global consolidation is increasing in the past decade because of the rapid growth of China in manuf ...
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Journal articleIssues in Science and Technology · January 1, 2007
The United States political leaders prescribe remedies such as increasing US engineering graduation rates to match the self-proclaimed rates of emerging competition from India and China. The United States graduates roughly 70,000 undergraduate engineers an ...
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Journal articleEnvironment and Planning A · December 1, 2006
By using the main insights of the global value chains perspective and some of its critiques, we attempt to explain how Turkey has developed and sustained its export success as a full-package supplier of apparel during the 1990s and early 2000s. Towards thi ...
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Journal articleReview of International Political Economy · February 1, 2005
This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature - transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning - to id ...
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Journal articleGlobal Networks · April 2003
AbstractIn this article we examine the developmental consequences of globalization at multiple scales, using a commodity chains framework to investigate the case of the North American apparel industry. In the first section ...
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Journal articleWorld Development · January 1, 2001
Using a case study of the export-oriented blue jeans industry in Torreon, Mexico, the authors discuss the role of US buyers in promoting full-package apparel production. While the networks associated with this model yield better development outcomes for fi ...
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Journal articleIDS Bulletin · January 1, 2001
The Internet is still in the early stages of its development, but its impact on global value chains is already evident. While it may be premature to try to identify lasting changes on producer-driven and buyer-driven chains, several possible scenarios are ...
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Journal articleForeign Policy · January 1, 2001
A new global activism is shaming the world's top companies into enacting codes of conduct and opening their Third World factories for inspection. But beforejou run a victory lap injour new sweatshop-free sneakers, ask yourself: Do these voluntary arrangeme ...
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Journal articleJournal of International Economics · June 1, 1999
This article uses a global commodity chains perspective to analyze the social and organizational dimensions of international trade networks. In linking international trade and industrial upgrading, this article specifies: the mechanisms by which organizati ...
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Journal articleRevue d'économie industrielle · 1995
[eng] The East Asian nations have been labeled "miracle economies" because of their unparalleled record of rapid economic growth and social equity over the past several decades. There has been considerable disagreement, however, over the explanation for th ...
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Journal articleForo Internacional
Mexico has had an exceptionally close relationship with the United States (US) for many decades. Recent calls in the US for a new wave of “nearshoring” to help the American economy rebuild its fragmented and vulnerable supply chains following a series of d ...
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