This chapter aims at providing an overview of the dynamics between multinational
enterprises (MNEs) and global value chains (GVCs). In order to do so, we draw on the …

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

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 …

In this chapter, the authors present a brief literature review on how the International
Business (IB) literature has evolved and taken shape over the ten-year period since the mid …

This paper aims to advance International Business (IB) research by better identifying the role
and influential area of foreign-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) in global value …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Global value chain (GVC) analysis draws on international political economy, development
studies, economic geography management studies and economic sociology to provide …