The emergence of global production and distribution systems, which bring together diverse
constellations of economic actors through an increasingly complex regime of global …

Designed to break with state‐centric approaches to understanding economic development,
global commodity chain, global value chain (GVC), and global production network (GPN) …

abstract Global production networks (GPN) are organizational platforms through which
actors in different regional and national economies compete and cooperate for a greater …

The global value chain (GVC) approach has become an increasingly relevant tool not only
for the analysis of the current strategies of firms in global economic networks, but also for the …

For some time now, calls have been made for a more adequate theorization of the state and
institutional frameworks in work on global production networks (GPNs) and global value …

Research on global value chains (GVCs), and related global commodity chains (GCCs) and
global production networks (GPNs), has broken with state-centric approaches to …

The GVC approach offers the possibility of understanding how firms are linked in the global
economy, but also acknowledges the broader institutional context of these linkages …

The Politics of Global Supply Chains analyses the changing politics of power and
distribution within contemporary global supply chains. Drawing on over 300 interviews with …

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 …

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 …