Differently from the previous natural disasters, COVID-19 is not specific to a country or an industry, but a pandemic that affects the global connectivity of goods and services. Furthermore, the so-called bullwhip effect aggravates the negative impacts from the demand shock, where an initial...

The organisation of business activities into global value chains was a defining component of the significant advancements in globalisation witnessed in the three decades leading up to the Great Recession. In the years that followed the speed of global trade integration slowed down, and the...

This chapter provides an overview of the literature on power relations in global sourcing which goes beyond the prevalent focus on the dyadic business-to-business relation. The move through the various theories of power leads to my major claim which is that power dynamics in GVCs must be...