In China, entrepreneurs hailing from ethnic Chinese transnational technology networks have linked up with global capital to create hybrid firms that combine relatively efficient foreign financing with a strategic commitment to intensive utilisation of domestic resources to create their core...

This paper analyses the integrated circuit and pharmaceutical GVCs to determine the scope of technical upgrading and value capture achieved by Chinese and Indian contract R&D firms within these GVCs. There are three main findings. First, the two sectors differ significantly in terms of the...

This paper contributes to the developing literature on weaponized interdependence by demonstrating through a case study of American export controls targeting Huawei that global value chain (GVC) analysis is a more appropriate tool to analyze the effects of weaponizing supply chains than the...