'Modern slavery'describes various forms of severe relational labour exploitation. In the realm
of global value chains and global factories that are led by multinational enterprises, modern …

While understanding the influence of private governance through global lead firms has been
a defining feature of global value chain (GVC) analysis, the state has often been implicitly …

This Companion provides a review of global value chains (GVCs) and the megatrends that
are shaping them and will continue to reshape them in deep-set trajectories of change over …

This paper addresses the theories of global strategy from the contrasting perspectives of
MNEs and business ecosystems. A business ecosystem approach has become pervasive …

Purpose Amidst burgeoning attention for global value chains (GVCs) in international
business (IB), this paper aims to identify a clear “missing link” in this literature and discusses …

This study aims to examine how born globals establish, participate in and manage their
global value chains (GVCs) and how existing support for internationalising SMEs, and …

This chapter, having briefly restated what is meant by the term 'modern slavery', will explore
how business is implicated by it, and the salient requirements of the UK Modern Slavery Act …

What drives firm strategy in a semi-globalized world (Ghemawat, 2007)? This is, and should
be, a central question in global value chain (GVC) research. For without agency on the part …

The pandemic crisis caused a severe shock to global value chains and led to supply
shortages for complex medical goods such as respiratory ventilators. What followed were …

Global value chains (GVCs) are a powerful vehicle through which multinational enterprises
(MNEs) can help address the grand challenges that humanity faces. But optimally utilizing …