... 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...

... Servicification of manufacturing ICT services Global value chains Manufacturing industry China Europe F10 F14 Global value chains (GVCs) [1] have undergone significant structural transformations in recent years, often referred to as “servicification” [2] and risk of “decoupling” [3...

... between the export and productivity in global value chains for Estonian and Latvian firms, Benkovskis et al. (2020) find that total factor productivity gains from exports are higher for specific types of exports which correspond to high value added activities in GVCs, indicating the importance...

...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...