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 …

This paper presents a critical review of the global value chain (GVC) literature in light of the
“technological capabilities” approach to innovation in less-developed countries (LDCs) …

As ever more policy-makers, governments and organisations turn to the gig economy and
digital labour as an economic development strategy to bring jobs to places that need them, it …

Summary The Innovation Systems (IS) literature tends not to emphasize the crucial impact of
international knowledge and innovation exchange and collaboration through, for example …

The paper presents a framework for developing country value chain analysis made up of
three components. The first consists of identifying major constraints for value chain …

This article explores in depth the role of indigenous and foreign innovation efforts in
technological change and catching up and their interactions in the emerging economies. It …

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 examines various upgrading and downgrading repositioning firm strategies
within global value chains (GVCs) or global production networks (GPNs). It builds upon …

The emergence of global value chains (GVCs) has provided some firms the opportunity to
internationalize by specializing in the production of specific inputs or tasks along the chain …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to analyse the role of relational power/dependent
asymmetries and symmetries in shaping socially responsible supply chain management …