Enforcing higher labor standards within developing country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy

By Rajneesh Narula. Journal of International Business Studies, 2019

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Applying and advancing internalization theory: The multinational enterprise in the twenty-first century (2019, background): “While ownership boundaries may have receded in a GVC, control has a wider span, while the firm’s responsibility boundaries now stretch much further than do its control boundaries (Narula, 2019).”
World Investment Report 2020: International production beyond the pandemic (2020, background): “…et al., 2020), and to help uncover the impact of various value chain configurations and governance mechanisms on the upgrading or downgrading trajectories for firms (Kano et al., 2020), on both the formal and the informal sector (Narula, 2019), as well as on host countries’ economic development.”
Innovation in and from emerging economies: New insights and lessons for international business research (2021, background): “…sets, including organizational skills and efficiencies associated with managing complex hierarchies and minimizing transaction costs between and within firms and markets (Andersson, Buckley & Dellestrand, 2015; Buckley and Casson, 2009; Narula, 2019; Korosteleva, Estrin & Mickiewicz, 2021).”