enterprises (SMEs), which tend to employ the largest share of workers, struggling to benefit from the opportunities offered by the … evolving GVC landscape. This paper identifies how SMEs in ASEAN economies participate in GVCs by combining firm level data with … the Trade in Value Added (TiVA) database. SMEs in the region might face more constraints than large firms in sourcing …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in generating economic activity and employment in … developing and developed countries. However, partly due to remaining at-the-border trade costs, SMEs continue to be less … (TFIs) – and various measures of international engagement of SMEs. While there are differentiated impacts across firm size …

relatively simple digital tools, such as webpages, remains relatively low, constraining the ability of ASEAN SMEs to engage in …

benefits from participation are accruing to larger firms or if small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up the … database and map how SMEs have been participating in GVCs. It then identifies the benefits associated with this participation … makers focus on: i) reducing trade costs that hit SMEs hardest; including tariffs, trade agreements and trade facilitation …

, covering 111 countries and 38,966 firms for the 2009‒2018 period with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our … technological capability are important for a firm, and technological capability is particularly important for SMEs to enable them to …. These attributes are particularly important for SMEs. Several policy recommendations and a future research agenda are …

period 2004-2014. Our results show that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a lower degree of engagement in both … backward and forward GVC participation when compared with larger firms (non-SMEs). This study also finds that GVC participation … SME is associated with a lower degree of GVC participation, but GVC participation can help firms (both SMEs and large …