Breaking up the global value chain: opportunities and consequences

With intensified global competition, institutional changes and reduced communication costs the propensity of firms to reconfigure their global value chain and separate their activities across national boundaries has increased markedly. It enables firms to combine the benefits arising from specializa...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Camuffo, Arnaldo active 2017, Devinney, Timothy M. 1956-, Pedersen, Torben active 2017
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Bingley, U.K. Emerald Publishing Limited 2017
Schriftenreihe:Advances in international management v. 30
Links:https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-5027201730
Zusammenfassung:With intensified global competition, institutional changes and reduced communication costs the propensity of firms to reconfigure their global value chain and separate their activities across national boundaries has increased markedly. It enables firms to combine the benefits arising from specialization and increased flexibility with location advantages. Consequently, large parts of manufacturing and other more standardized activities have been offshored to emerging countries. However, recent developments are challenging this traditional separation between advanced and emerging economies as host of knowledge- and production-intensive activities, respectively. Recent research has emphasized the role of intra-organizational relationships and links among the different parts of the value chain. Innovative and productive activities are affected by strong interdependencies and complementarities, and for some companies the co-location of R&D and manufacturing is critical for development and innovation. This volume will interest scholars in International Business, Economic Geography, Operations and Supply Chain Management, International Economics, and Political Science.
Beschreibung:Includes index.
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (310 Seiten)
ISBN:9781787432437
9781787430716
ISSN:1571-5027