Reddy, Ketan Sasidharan, Subash
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
We analyze the role of digital infrastructure in shaping the global value chain (GVC) participation of Indian manufacturing firms. To examine the digitalization and GVC nexus, a rich, firm-level, unbalanced panel of 4875 manufacturing firms from the past two decades is used to detail the rising significance of digital infrastructure in the Indian c...
De Marchi, Valentina Gereffi, Gary
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
Climate crises are being experienced all over the world and appear to be accelerating as “extreme weather” events become the “new normal.” In today’s world economy, where trade and production activities are internationally dispersed and prone to disruptions, the global value chain (GVC) framework provides a systematic approach to understand and com...
Silva, Francesco
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
Coveri, Andrea Zanfei, Antonello
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
A growing concern has emerged in both academic research and policy circles about the hidden risks that can arise from a narrow specialization of economies in a world characterized by the international fragmentation of production. In this work, we address the virtues and limits of specialization in light of the strong interdependencies between count...
Eissa, Yasmine Zaki, Chahir
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
This paper empirically investigates the association between global value chains (GVC) participation and countries’ innovation performance. Highlighting the learning effect of foreign knowledge embedded in imported intermediate goods counters the argument that GVC participation is biased towards developed countries with skilled labor abundance. We c...
Blázquez, L. Díaz-Mora, C. González-Díaz, B.
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
This paper investigates the role of digital services in the dynamics observed in global value chains (GVCs) from 1995 to 2018. Despite the context of a deceleration in globalisation, we observe how countries’ exports are increasingly incorporating foreign digital services, suggesting that a new channel, digitally driven, for globalization and GVC p...
Wu, Weixiao Hong, Chang
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
Processing trade and related policies have been at the center of some major disputes concerning global segmentation. China has built numerous Export Processing Zones (EPZs) with the backing of local governments to facilitate greater integration into the global supply chain and boost local industrial upgrading. We create a series of backward and for...
Mariotti, Sergio
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
This article offers a descriptive summary of the fifty years of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics , with information and data on the protagonists, governance, issues and changes that have taken place in half a century. Reference is first made to the Italian context, in which the Journal was born and grew, and then to the internationa...
Naudé, Wim
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
The digital (or 4th industrial) revolution has made industrialisation harder by being less consequential for structural transformation than was initially hoped. The rise of digital platform capitalism and its relation to global value chains (GVCs) is responsible for this. This paper explains why diminished expectations of the 4th industrial revolut...
Durongkaveroj, Wannaphong
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Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
Policy makers in several countries are seeking to increase domestic value added in export. The purpose of this paper is to examine this emphasis in trade and industrial policy in the era of global value chains. The formal empirical analysis adopts Thailand as a case study, and employs a mixture of input–output analysis and panel econometrics to mod...
