Given the growing importance of service supply chain management (SSCM) in operations,
we review a selection of papers in the operations research and the management science …

In this chapter we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries
benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across …

This paper analyses the characteristics of firms that operate at the global productivity frontier
and their relationship with other firms in the economy, focusing on the diffusion of global …

Manufacturing-led development has provided the traditional model for creating jobs and
prosperity. But in the past three decades the conventional pattern of structural transformation …

Over the last two decades, world trade and production have become increasingly organized
around global value chains (GVC). Recent theoretical work has shown that countries can …

This paper examines the evolution of firm mark-ups across 26 countries for the period 2001-
14. It also discusses and investigates empirically how this can be related to the degree of …

A substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services since the mid-1980s.
Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing …

Conventional explanations for the post‐1991 growth of India's manufacturing sector focus on
goods trade liberalisation and industrial delicensing. We demonstrate the powerful …

Digital technology is profoundly changing the international economic and trade pattern, and
digital service trade is increasingly becoming an important carrier of transnational …

Remarkably, a small fraction of firms account for most of the job and output creation in high-
income and developing countries alike. Does this imply that the path to enabling more …