This article reviews the rapidly growing domain of global value chain (GVC) research by
analyzing several highly cited conceptual frameworks and then appraising GVC studies …

The international business (IB) literature has always analyzed multinational enterprises
(MNEs) as firms that internalize market transactions across national borders. Over the last …

A commodity chain refers to “a network of labor and production processes whose end result
is a finished commodity.” The attention given to this concept has quickly translated into an …

This article offers a comprehensive and systematic review of the literature on Global Value
Chains (GVCs). The GVC framework has received growing attention in the last decade …

Global value chain (GVC) governance is an established field within international business
research, yet the relational aspects of GVCs have, to date, garnered less scholarly attention …

One of the main preoccupations of global value chain (GVC) analysis has been how value
chains are governed and by which types of firms. Most current conceptualizations …

Technological and organizational changes have been crucial in transforming the way in
which production is organized across time and space. The steam engine in the nineteenth …

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

This paper aims at enriching the literature on international business (IB) studies to include
insights from Global Value Chain (GVC) analysis to better explain how MNCs can …

This introductory paper to the special issue on governing global value chains (GVCs)
focuses on the concept of governance as the dimension of GVCs that has received the most …