How is learning-oriented participation in global value chains (GVCs) associated with firm performance, and what role does capability upgrading play? Drawing on GVC upgrading and dynamic-capabilities research, this study retains the four established u...
Since launching its reforms and opening up, China has actively integrated itself into global value chains (GVCs) and experienced continuous growth. However, there exists a significant imbalance between GVC upgrading and economic growth across regions...
The global and domestic divisions of labor have had a great influence on the economy and environment in China during the last decade. With the refinement of production processes, national value chains (NVCs) coexist with global value chains (GVCs), e...
The typical approach in the business strand of literature on inter-organisational forms of cooperation is based on the Porter’s value chain model or on the body of literature related to the supply chain. However, there is extended research on v...
Indonesian coffee MSMEs face increasing pressure to meet certification standards and adopt digital technologies to remain competitive in export markets. Despite strong agro-ecological advantages and rising global demand, upgrading efforts remain frag...
To discover how the lacquerware industry realizes its core competency, it is important to explore its upgrading strategies in the global value chains. The purpose of this study is to discuss the upgrading strategies applied during the lacquerware ind...
This paper investigates the role of cross-border trade in shaping participation in global value chains (GVCs) in developing and emerging economies over the period 2000–2022. It tests the central hypothesis that greater trade intensity enhances...
China has been on a new journey pursuing high-quality development, an important element of which is global value chain (GVC) upgrading. The smart city pilot policy, which aims at reshaping the urban development model in China, is carried out and rega...
1 October 2022
China’s service trade competitiveness is weak, and the service industry occupies a low position in the GVC (Global Value Chain); therefore, promoting the upgrade of the GVC of China’s service industry is worth studying. Under the new situ...
22 September 2022
Engagement in the global division of labor has greatly influenced China’s economy and environment. With the multi-regional input–output (MRIO) framework, we calculate the global value chain (GVC) participation index of China’s 16 ma...
The Global Value Chain (GVC) approach has emerged as a novel methodological device for analysing economic globalization and international trade. The suitability of the chain metaphor and strategies for moving up the ladder of GVCs (“upgrade”) is wide...
In the context of the deepening division of labour in global value chains (GVC) and the goal of “double carbon”, it is important to promote China’s manufacturing industry to break away from the unfavourable situation of “big b...
This paper investigates the relationship between China’s trade agreements (TAs) and partner countries’ upgrade in global value chains (GVCs). We focus on the experience of China and relate China’s TAs with one belt and one road (OBO...
Global value chains (GVCs) are being reconfigured by trade-policy uncertainty, geopolitical fragmentation, supply-chain disruptions, and the accelerated diffusion of digital technologies. Drawing on a socio-technical systems perspective, this study d...
The dual circulation strategy represents China’s new-era national development paradigm aimed at achieving sustainable economic growth while promoting global value chain (GVC) upgrading. This study develops an integrated analytical framework tha...
Amid global economic transformation, technological innovation is widely recognized as a pivotal driver for the sustainable upgrading of the automotive industry. This is particularly critical for China, the world’s largest automotive market, whi...
Studies on policies oriented to Global Value Chains (GVC) focus much attention on developing countries and upgrading opportunities. Recent trends related to digitalization, market requests, and new consideration for value linked to manufacturing chal...
Scientifically judging the environmental effects of embedding in the global value chain (GVC) has important theoretical significance and practical value, especially for emerging economies, but there are few studies on the relationship between GVC emb...
The paper explores the role of suppliers in the process of environmental upgrading (EnvU) within global value chains (GVCs). Theoretical contributions to EnvU have highlighted, in particular, the role of global buyers in supporting the EnvU of produc...
Most of the existing literature focuses on how international industrial transfer (IIT) impacts the global value chain (GVC) status of the manufacturing industry from the perspective of narrowly defined FDI but ignores the objective fact that FDI and...
With the deepening development of global value chains (GVC), a large number of foreign intermediate inputs have been integrated in the products production process of one country, thus the technology content of export products may not completely come...
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) has become a crucial technology for rapid prototyping and enhancing the efficiency of producing lighter components. Despite these advantages, many challenges remain. We examine how mineral-rich developing countries c...
This paper examines Mexico’s integration into Global Value Chains (GVCs) and its implications for structural change over the period 1995–2020. Using a multiregional input–output framework, the analysis decomposes gross exports into...
High-quality agricultural development (HQAD) in China is essential to achieving Chinese-style modernization, which represents a uniquely Chinese path to modernization characterized by coordinated development across economic, political, cultural, soci...
Against the backdrop of China’s new development paradigm, this study examines how the coupling coordination between the national value chain (NVC) and the global value chain (GVC) affects regional green development and the mechanisms through wh...
The innovation-driven transformation of carbon-intensive industries is central to global climate governance and sustainable industrial specialization. Integrating Global Value Chain (GVC) embedding, external environmental dynamics, and industrial inn...
Recent studies on the global value chain (GVC) have highlighted the need to better integrate the value chains of developing countries of the global South with that of the global North regions, which are more highly developed. This is aimed at enhanci...
This study investigates the impact of Environmental Policy Stringency (EPS) on GVC functional specialization. We find that EPS promotes high value-added, low-carbon upstream and downstream specialization—supporting the “Porter Hypothesis...
This paper develops a theory-first framework explaining how tariff policy reshapes participation and position in global value chains (GVCs). Building on the input–output price model and value-added trade accounting, we formalize the tariff casc...
In the context of economic globalization, international trade facilitates cross-border production and consumption but raises concerns such as carbon transfer from corporate trade activities. This study investigates the influence of executives’...
Clarifying the upgrading implications of Internet penetration is essential in the digital transformation era. This paper examines to what extent and how Internet penetration affects Chinese firms’ GVC positions. We find that Internet penetratio...
While the core objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit the increase in global average temperature (GAT) to 2 °C in the 21st century and to work towards limiting it to 1.5 °C, globalization and the configuration of production processes ar...
In the context of globalization, balancing economic growth with social equity is a critical challenge for achieving sustainable development. While Global Value Chains (GVCs) have become a defining feature of the contemporary economy, their specific i...
This article examines the governance of Global Value Chains (GVCs) through the lens of economic competence based on a systematic literature review of 32 selected studies. The findings show that economic competence functions as a governance-contingent...
This study takes Tianjin as an example to analyze how to build the manufacturing industry chain ecosystem. Based on the ecosystem theory, the related literature of manufacturing industry chain and value chain, and combined with various action plans f...
This paper adopts the GDYN model to estimate the dynamic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global manufacturing industry and the value chain. Our simulation finds that (1) In the short run, the low-tech manufacturing industries will suffer greater s...
With the acceleration of the digital revolution and free trade, the producer services industry has become a new driving force for countries to enhance their global value chain (GVC). The further integration of GVCs has promoted the formation of a glo...
Amid the restructuring of global value chains (GVCs) and the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, how firms’ reallocation of human capital relates to escaping value chain lock-in has become a question of growing theoretical and practical im...