Disruptive Ereignisse wie die Finanzkrise oder Fukushima verdeutlichen die Anfälligkeit globaler Produktionsnetzwerke und Zulieferketten. Ein wichtiger Grund hierfür ist die meist einseitige Orientierung an vermeintlich kalkulier- und quantifizierbaren Risiken anstatt der zusätzlichen...

This paper examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on resilience. We argue that resilience is not a one-dimensional concept but has different meanings at the levels of the firm (operational efficiency), global value chains (appropriate governance), and the nation-state (national security)....

This paper employs a modern global value chain (GVC) decomposition framework to quantify economic interdependence among Asian economies and between Asia and the rest of the world. It pays special attention to the value-added relationships among three sets of economies: those belonging to both...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) exert pressure on multinational enterprises (MNE) to force the application of social and environmental standards for subcontractors in developing countries. Non-governmental regulation relies on voluntary standards defined by the NGOs, or by the MNEs...

The restrictive measures that have been imposed from March 2020 on business activities in several countries to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic can be interpreted as shocks to global supply chains. We propose some agent-based models to evaluate the economic effects of different...

We propose a novel indicator to capture pressures that arise at the global supply chain level, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI). The GSCPI provides a new monitoring tool to gauge global supply chain conditions. We assess the index’s capacity to explain inflation outcomes, using...

This paper therefore focuses on domestic laws that provide workers with an additional avenue of remedy from an expanded employment relationship—a doctrine of joint employer liability that places obligations “up the chain” on the in-country originating contractor who benefits from the...

Global supply chains power 80% of world trade, but also host widespread environmental, labor, and human rights abuses in developing countries. Most scholarship focuses on some form of sanction to motivate supply chain members, but we propose that the fundamental problem is not insufficient...

Many multinational corporations now use global supply chains to produce goods and services. Multinational corporations at the top of global supply chains exert significant control over actors lower in the chain, and thereby contribute to low labour standards in the companies they source goods...