Conceptual Framework for Biodiversity Assessments in Global Value Chains

The Governance of Global Value Chains: An Analytic Framework

This paper builds a theoretical framework to explain and predict governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature, transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chains are governed. These are 1) the complexity of transacti...

Global Value Chains: A framework of Buyer-Supplier Management

Business clusters and global value chains (GVCs) command growing interest in some research disciplines. In the existing literature overwhelmingly focus on two niches: governance and upgrading. The detailed mechanisms of buyer-supplier relationship management tend to remain under-researched. This paper presents a framework base on the literature on the literature of International Marketing and P...

Measuring Iran's Economy Status Indicators in Global Value Chains and Comparison with Selected Countries

​Global value chains are a complex product of the international fragmentation of production expansion that has revolutionized the production organization of the global economy and increased trade in services and intermediary goods. This new form of trade has allowed developing countries to benefit from international trade with specialization and comparative advantage in tasks, without having a ...

A comprehensive framework for global patterns in biodiversity

Robert E. Ricklefs Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St Louis, MO 63121–4499, USA E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The present study proposes to reconcile the different spatial and temporal scales of regional species production and local constraint on species richness. Although interactions between populations rapidly achieve equilibrium and lim...

Global Value Chains , Economic Upgrading , and Gender