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Globally Trading Firms in Canada: Productivity and Global Value Chains
Journal of Comparative International Management, 2021 Using firm-level data in Canada from 2002 to 2008, I compare the economic performance of three types of firms: those that both export and import (called globally trading firms—GTFs), exporters-only, and importers-only. The results show that GTFs are more productive, larger, more capital intensive, pay higher wages, trade more goods, and trade with more
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Resources, 2019 Major pasta industries have started to evaluate the environmental footprint of their productions exploiting both Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and, in some cases, Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) methodologies.
Lucia Recchia +4 more
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Управленческие науки, 2016 The article deals with the fundamental problems of changing approaches to the management of global value chains in the process of unfolding a new industrial revolution for example, the additive production or 3D- printing.
E. I. Moskvitina, S. A. Tolkachev
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Import Intensity of Production, Tasks and Wages: Micro-Level Evidence for Poland
Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2018 A B S T R A C T Objective: This article relates to recent literature on labour market consequences of production fragmentation within Global Value Chains, analysed in the presence of workers’ heterogeneity and differences in the task content of jobs ...
Aleksandra Parteka
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Tracking the CO2 Emissions of China’s Coal Production via Global Supply Chains
Energies, 2022 Coal’s green mining and scientific utilization is the key to achieve the national vision of carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. Clarifying the CO2 flow of coal production is the core part of decarbonization.
Zheqi Yang +6 more
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Global Crop Value Chains: Shifts and Challenges in South-North Relations
Social Sciences, 2019 The worldwide importance of crop production is undisputed due to its function for basic nutrition of billions of people. Yet, the emergence of global forces implies severe consequences for the organization of crop value chains.
Stefan Nier +2 more
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Materials & Design, 2020 Quarantine conditions arising as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) have had a significant impact on global production-rates and supply chains. This has coincided with increased demands for medical and personal protective equipment such as face ...
Alborz Shokrani +3 more
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Global Value Chain and Total Factor Productivity in Africa
Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, 2023 This paper examines the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on total factor productivity in African economies. The analysis is based on panel corrected standard errors, IV-estimation technique and the novel Method of Moment (MM)-panel quantile regression. The results reveal that there is positive and significant relationship between global
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Gender relations in global agri-food value chains – a review
DIE ERDE: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 2014 This article reviews the research literature on gender relations in global agri-food value chains. The main focus is on the production side in countries of the Global South, with most examples from sub-Saharan Africa.
Schumacher, Kim Philip
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Comparative Assessment of Global Value Chains' Influence on National Economies
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2023 In recent decades, a predominant trend in the transformation of national economies worldwide has been the extensive establishment of global value chains and the increased activities of transnational corporations (TNCs).
K. S. Goncharova +2 more
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