, governance and upgrading, and highlights three key recent developments in GVCs: concentration, regionalization and synergistic … governance. Findings – The paper underscores the complicated role of GVCs in shaping economic and social upgrading for emerging … achieve social upgrading has led to calls for synergistic governance through the cooperation of private, public and social …

Globalisation, governance and economic performance affect each other in very complex mutual relationships. In this … paper, we establish a clear and well-circumscribed hypothesis: “is there an effect of globalisation on governance?” To test … available theoretical explanations of causal relationships between globalisation and governance. Microeconomic theory helps us …