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Connections and Competences in the Governance of the Value Chain. How Industrial Countries Maintain their Competitive Advantage.

Crestanello, Paolo; Tattara, Giuseppe - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2006

The aim of our paper is to analyse the governance of value chains operating in the traditional sectors of clothing and footwear, focusing particularly on production de-localization from the Italian region of Veneto to the nearby country of Rumania After describing and ‘quantifying’ the...

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Information Structure and Behaviour of a Textile Industrial District

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a model of the structure of the information flows that underlie the creation of production chains between thousands of small textile firms located in Prato, central Italy. Contrary to most textile industry of western Europe and north America, Prato did not die out once...

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Regional distribution of technology-intensive manufacturing industries in the czech republic with an accent on risk of delocalisation

Ženka, Jan; Čadil, Vladislav - In: Prague Economic Papers 2009 (2009) 1, pp. 61-77

regions that are more threatened by delocalisation of manufacturing activities. The assessment of companies' localisation … stability is based on 3 economic indicators representing internal keep-factors of delocalisation - capital intensity, complexity …, which are considered to be the most predisposed for delocalisation, are geographically dispersed. Localisation of …

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Fragmentation, globalization and labor markets

Burda, Michael C.; Dluhosch, Barbara - 2001

Fragmentation of the value-added-chain is modeled as the reaction of monopolistically competitive firms to the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility in an integrated trading environment. Since fragmentation requires high-skilled labor, this form of globalization can induce labor...

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Cost competition, fragmentation and globalization

Burda, Michael C.; Dluhosch, Barbara - 2001

This paper proposes a model in which the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility is associated with endogenous fragmentation of the value-added chain. Fragmentation is the outcome of cost competition - the profit-maximizing choice of cost structure by monopolistically competitive firms....

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Business groups as hierarchies of firms: Determinants of vertical integration and performance

Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - 2013

We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...

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Cadeias de valor baseadas em recursos naturais: O caso do Brasil

Veiga, Pedro Luiz da Motta; Rios, Sandra Polónia - 2016

This article analyzes, for the case of Brazil, the structure and the dynamics of two natural resources-based value chains: the poultry and wood furniture chains. The study shows that, in the sectors analyzed, there exist different models of organization of the value chains. Those differences are...

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The occupational structures of low- and high-wage service sector establishments

Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2018

The occupational structure of an establishment provides a description of its production process by detailing the distribution and relative intensity of tasks performed. In this paper, I investigate whether there are substantive differences in the occupational structures of low- and high-wage...

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Construction Value Chains and Their Productivity Growth

Kuusi, Tero; Junnonen, Juha-Matti; Kulvik, Martti - 2020

The construction industry has suffered from low growth in recent decades. Motivated by the economic impor-tance of the industry, we revisit the construction produc-tivity puzzle by analyzing the construction value chains of 12 European countries with data from the World In-put-Output and EU...

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Automation technologies and employment at risk: The case of Mexico

Cebreros, Alfonso; Heffner-Rodríguez, Aldo; Livas, René; … - 2020

Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the...

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