... 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...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 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...

... an environment in which firms in developing countries would progress their production and management capabilities by trading and interacting with more sophisticated foreign firms. In a sense, this is like an improvement in technology. In this context, we think that joining global value chains has a lot...

...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...