...Mats Forsgren; Mo Yamin Purpose This paper aims to examine why multinational enterprises (MNEs), despite their central role in orchestrating global value chains (GVCs), often fail to generate the expected investment-led upgrading among local suppliers in less developed countries (LDCs...

...Gabriele Suder; Bo Meng; Gao Yuning Purpose In international business (IB), the discussion of COVID-19-related global value chain (GVC) models driving resilience has taken momentum since May 2020. The purpose of this study is to uncover insights that the pandemic provided as a unique research...

.... The second is to respond to the call put forward by Giuliani and Macchi (2014) to produce synergies between bodies of literature exploring the development impact of businesses. The paper focuses on ideas from the global value chain/global production networks (GVC/GPN), business and human rights, corporate...

...Dr Mo Yamin, Prof Rudolf R Sinkovics; Joonkoo Lee; Gary Gereffi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the global value chain (GVC) approach to understand the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the changing patterns of global trade, investment and production...