... in supporting global value chain activities. The direct export intensity of domestic firms enhances FS in production, while the direct export intensity of MNEs supports R&D function. Detailed analyses for EU15 and Central Eastern European (CEE) countries indicate two different types of firms...

...Yumin Cao; Lin Yuan; Xiaoyun Chen; Yibai Wang Purpose Given the importance of directions in institutional distance studies, noticeably absent from the global value chains (GVCs) literature is an examination of positive institutional distance and its “greasing-the-wheels” effect, which could...

... the consistency and quality of outputs. These findings align with the broader consensus in the literature that servicification is a key driver of quality enhancement in manufacturing, enabling firms to respond more flexibly and efficiently to market demands (Low and Pasadilla (2016)). Global value chains...

... to firms in low-tech technology sectors. Global value chains Labor productivity Firm profitability Türkiye Abdullah Altun can be contacted at: aaltun@gtu.edu.tr 25 02 2022 18 10 2022 05 02 2023 28 03 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing...

...Kashika Arora; Areej Aftab Siddique Purpose The focus is on determining the long-term relationship in explaining how technological capabilities interact with trade and global value chain (GVC) participation to aid in the upgradation process using a panel auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL...

...Jana Vlckova; Bublu Sarbani Thakur-Weigold Purpose Medical technology (MedTech) is a growth industry, which like other manufacturing sectors has undergone fragmentation of production and emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs). The purpose of this paper is to compare how two open European...