This paper reviews the literature on global value chain configuration, providing an overview
of this topic. Specifically, we review the literature focusing on the concept of the global value …

The Industry 4.0 is important for China to achieve industrial upgrading and promoting the
quality of manufacturing development. This paper investigates the driving force of the …

Intellectual capital (IC) is considered to be a main driver of organizational success in the
knowledge economy. This study examines the impacts of three IC components, including …

abstract One important effect of the increasing integration of the world economy is the rising
importance of possibilities to offshore and outsource value‐creating activities. In many …

Technology has created innovative new prospects for manufacturing industries with Industry
4.0 and has helped further the growth of the manufacturing sector. This book focuses on the …

The impact of research and development (R&D) investment on firm performance is
interesting, but it is not easy to conduct this topic in emerging markets due to the data …

The offshoring of more advanced activities is increasing and a debate about the limits of
offshoring has emerged. Companies are fine-slicing their value chains, and moving beyond …

This research asks who captures the greatest value in the global electronics industry by
testing the concept of the “smiling curve”, which predicts that the greatest value is captured …

Although research in the supply chain area inherently involves the study of supply networks,
the majority of existing work is limited to utilizing a dyadic approach in examining …

This paper studies the international expansion of local subsidiaries of multinational
enterprises (MNEs). The main questions asked are why and how MNEs' local subsidiaries in …