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Fair Markets and Resilient Supply Chains: Designing Sustainable Intermediation for Rural Communities
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agriculture in Ecuador's communes faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges, intensified by supply chains dominated by traditional intermediaries. The lack of context‐specific sustainability studies further increases the vulnerability of smallholders.
Jacqueline del Rocío Bacilio Bejeguen +3 more
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Assessing Value Capture in GVCs: Conceptual Issues and Evidence at the Country Level
, 2023 This chapter first offers a brief review of the conceptual aspects related to the ‘smile curve hypothesis’. Moreover, we use data on inward foreign direct investments (FDIs) to provide an empirical assessment of the functional specialization of economies
Paglialunga, Elena +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Non‐timber forest products (NTFPs) are central to income diversification and livelihood resilience in Sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the welfare implications of baobab commercialisation remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analysing the contribution of the baobab value chain to household income, poverty reduction, and income ...
Frederick Frimpong +3 more
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Netherlands’ Participation in GVCs: Facts and Features
In recent decades, global value chains (GVCs) gave national economies new opportunities to increase competitiveness by placing some segments of production processes in foreign locations with lower costs.
Zharkova E.M., Volgina N.A.
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Управленческое консультированиеThe article examines the conceptual basis of international fragmentation of production in the form of global value chains (GVCs) as an important feature of globalization of the world economy.
I. G. Rromanov
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the environmental implications of tariffs on greenhouse gas emissions embodied in extra‐European Union imports consumed by domestic final demand in the EU. Using a multidimensional country‐sector‐year framework, the study investigates whether tariff changes are associated with variations in trade‐embodied emissions and ...
Hugo Campos‐Romero
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What entrepreneurial decisions enable the breeding of digital platform unicorns?
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Digital platforms have revolutionized business sectors; however, despite their significant success, platform unicorns remain rare. While extensive research exists on digital platform growth, it is uncertain what entrepreneurial decisions achieve unicorn status.
Sea Matilda Bez +3 more
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Knowledge, Oligopoly and Labour in Global Value Chains
Global Labour Journal, 2020 The article explores knowledge in global value chains (GVCs) and its correspondence with the nature of employment in different GVC segments. It starts with the role of knowledge that is protected through intellectual property rights in creating ...
Dev Nathan
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Food Processing Industries in Visegrad Countries in Global Value Chains (1995–2018)
Comparative Economic ResearchThe aim of the article is to evaluate the position in global value chains (GVCs) of food processing industries in the Visegrad countries (V4; Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia) between 1995 and 2018. To identify the intensity and forms of integration
Ivo Zdráhal, J. Matthew Fannin
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Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2018 This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs.
Dennis Davis +2 more
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