A wide range of interorganizational relationships falls on the global market to multinational hierarchy spectrum, ranging from supplier relationships (Dyer and Chu, 2000) to multinational business groups (Colpan, Hikino, and Lincoln, 2010; Granovetter, 1994). Concurrently, as firms increasingly...

1 The dynamic process of globalization 2 Global value chains 3 Volkswagen - lead firm and orchestrator 4 Participants from the advanced markets 5 Participants from Brazil and China 6 Toward a theory of network orchestration 7 Globalization and the challenge for development