The paper adopts a complexity perspective to understand the transformations in the organizational forms that coordinate the generation and dissemination of technological knowledge within firms. Complexity theory provides the framework to understand the evolution and transformation of economic...

Wer gehört zur Auto-Blechliga? Laut dem ehemaligen Audi-Vorstand Mertens sind das Hersteller, die im bewährten Stil einfach nur Fahrzeuge zusammenschrauben, ohne auf die gravierenden Veränderungen des Umfelds wie E-Mobilität, autonomes Fahren, Vernetzung und Nachhaltigkeit zu reagieren. Der...

Statistical data display a high level of sectorial and geographical concentration in the exports of three Central European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge quantities of the products of certain sectors of engineering...

Part I: Global Value Chains Foundations and empirical facts in Latin America -- Chapter 1. Global value chains evolution in Latin America -- Chapter 2: Latin American economies in Global value chains: Main evidence -- Chapter 3: Global Value Chains: Production and Innovation Clusters -- Part II:...

Foreign direct investment is supposed to stimulate economic growth through the transfer of new technical knowledge and product innovation. This paper deals with the knowledge flow within the Japanese automotive supply chain catalysed by the keiretsu network in Indonesia. For this purpose, we...

In this article, we apply global value chain (GVC) analysis to recent trends in the global automotive industry, with special attention paid to the case of North America. We use the three main elements of the GVC framework firm-level chain governance, power and institutions to highlight some of...