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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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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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This article continues with a discussion of what the author calls the argument from transnational effects. It says that supranational or transnational forms of integration, in particular market integration, are desirable on account of democracy itself. National democracies find themselves...
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Corporate communication is becoming increasingly international. Very little is known, however, about the profile, business context and qualifications of German PR specialists responsible for this worldwide communication. This article reports on the initial findings of a new study on this topic
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The social question has come down upon us in two different understandings. Modestly understood, it is about helping the needy and creating opportunities for disadvantaged members of society. More ambitiously conceived, by contrast, it is about extricating human life generally from the false...
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The circular economy model enables businesses to incorporate regenerative manufacturing systems that use closed-loop resources to achieve economic and environmental sustainability. The work focuses on the circular economy’s competitive advantage from the multinationals apparel industry’s...
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