Global value chain governance: Intersections with international business
By Sarah E. McWilliam, Jung Kwan Kim, Ram Mudambi, Bo Bernhard Nielsen. 2020
123 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Abstract The international business (IB) literature has always analyzed multinational enterprises (MNEs) as firms that internalize market transactions across national borders. Over the last few decades, these firms have evolved from vertically integrated organizations to network orchestrators that coordinate geographically dispersed economic activities. In other words, they are the primal actors within global value chains (GVCs). Despite the commonality of their objects of study, the incorporation of GVC research into mainstream IB remains embryonic and fragmented. This review uses the lens of the eclectic paradigm to funnel disconnected strands of the GVC governance literature from multiple disciplines into a coherent framework. Based on a systematic examination of 143 theoretical and empirical studies, we scrutinize the theory, methods and empirical evidence to promote a more structured integration of GVC governance into future IB research.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Strategy and Management
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In Strategy and Management
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- Pavida Pananond
- Gary Gereffi
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- Jennifer Bair
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- Henry S. C. Yeung
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Citations in the corpus
- An integrative typology of global strategy and global value chains: The management and organization of cross‐border activities (2020, background): “Given the importance of how GVCs link economic activities across borders through trade and investment, stronger efforts are being made to integrate the two areas, resulting in an increasing number of review articles that highlight the complementary nature of scholarship in GVC, global strategy, and ”