Tax administrations are networking to create synergies. On the one hand, formal and informal network strategies are developed to increase their receipts at the expense of enterprise. On the other hand, governments also follow an industrial marketing approach of networking to add value to...

This study investigates whether strategic networks in global value chains affect the upgrade of suppliers and describes alternative ways of overcoming the barriers to such upgrades. Using a cross-national analysis, we examine the complex upgrade process for suppliers from a long-term perspective...

Geographically dispersed production networks have allowed countries to specialise in different functions of the value chain. By making use of two methodologies for quantifying the magnitude of functional specialisation - one based on trade flows and one based on FDI flows - detailed profiles of...