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.
Case examples:
OWNERSHIP AND LOCATION IN THE SMALL DOMESTICAPPLIANCES INDUSTRY: THE DE’ LONGHI CASE;
Diego Campagnolo, Arnaldo Camuffo New Business Models in-the-Makingin Extant MNCs: Digital Transformation in a Telco; Àngels Dasí, Frank Elter, PaulGooderham, Torben Pedersen
Breaking up Global ValueChains: Evidence from the Global Oil and Gas Industry; Andrew Inkpen, KannanRamaswamy
Global integration strategiesin times of crisis - an event study of the impact the Global Financial Crisishas on Turkish subsidiaries' exporting strategies; Camilla Jensen
Organizational forms:
Offshoring, Overshoring andReshoring:The Long-term Effects of Manufacturing Decisions In the United States; Gwendolyn Whitfield
Backshoring: TowardsInternational Business and Economic Geography Research Agenda; PaweL Capik
Tied up and shocked: Howrelational contracting with suppliers constrains global buyers during aneconomic crisis; Brian Hong, Markus Taussig,Sarah Wolfolds, Kjell Carlsson
Towards a Multi-Path Theoryof Diversified International Expansion: The Case of Multinational MobileNetwork Operators; Frank Elter, Svein Ulset
Consequences of fragmenting:
The Performance Consequencesof Manufacturing Outsourcing: Review and Recommendations for Future Research; Roger Strange, GiovannaMagnani
Global Shift-Back's: Astrategy for reviving manufacturing competences; Bella Belerivana Nujen, LiseLillebrygfjeld Halse
Industrial district firms donot smile: structuring the value chain between local and global; Marco Bettiol, Chiara Burlina,Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria
Outward R&D Spillovers inthe Home Country: The Role of Reverse Knowledge Transfer; Lamia Ben Hamida
Walking Before You Can Run:Rethinking the Types of Knowledge, Networks and Institutions Emerging MarketSMEs Need to Benefit from GVCs; Gerald A. McDermott, CarloPietrobelli