期刊名称:International Journal of Business and Management
印刷版ISSN:1833-3850
电子版ISSN:1833-8119
出版年度:2009
卷号:4
期号:1
页码:32
DOI:10.5539/ijbm.v4n1P32
出版社:Canadian Center of Science and Education
摘要:Global value chains (GVC) offer opportunities and challenges for business developing in low income economies. The existing literature on GVC mainly focuses on two niches: governance and upgrading. The global buyers play as ‘lead firm’ in GVC context. However, the issues of upgrading activities at firm-level remain largely uncovered by the GVC literature. From the perspective of the literature on technological capabilities, this paper presents a framework to examine the levels of upgrading activities of producers in low income economies in the GVC quasi-governance structure.