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The emergence of integrative trade and global value chains (GVCs) over the past 20 years has changed the competitive landscape in international goods and services markets. Competition in many lines of businesses, particularly in the manufacturing sector, is now taking place more at a value chain...
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of the world economy. An increasing number of firms, countries and other economic actors take part in today's global … to produce goods and services and export these to the rest of world (Sturgeon and Gereffi, 2009). Countries just like …
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This research volume is concerned with the causes and consequences of global value chains — the fragmentation of production across firms and international boundaries. Figure 1 provides a schema for thinking about these phenomena. The total value of inputs used in producing a given level of...
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second unbundling (Baldwin, 2006; 2009) is among the most important features of modern globalization. Basic economic theory …
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service involves many steps and increasingly these steps are separable and can be located anywhere in the world based on where …
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International posting of workers and mobility of self-employed service suppliers lie between outright migration and trade in goods: their regulation, for both distributional and market correcting purposes, is not as difficult to harmonize as that of labour markets, but personal mobility is more...
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the shape and characteristics of community in the era of globalization. The viewpoint of virtual community calls us from …
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Many forces are making the world increasingly smaller and a movement for global citizenship is underway. Better …-belonging (aka belonging to the world) ought to be widely embraced. In this brief essay, we explore the need for the spirit by …., world renowned for the struggle against racism, Mohandas Gandhi, a well known spiritual and political leader from India, and …
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This report explores the growing importance of corporate headquarters in a world of global value chains. It examines … headquarters around the world and in Canada. It concludes with suggestions as to how governments may encourage headquarters to … locate in Canada. Governments around the world are keen to attract headquarters to their jurisdictions for a variety of …
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In the past decade, policymakers and others in a number of developed countries have expressed concern that firms in their countries appear to be increasingly locating their R&D facilities outside the home country. For example, in Foray and van Ark (2007), we read: “There are concerns expressed...
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