Breaking up the Global Value Chain

Economists and business scholars explore how companies are reconfiguring their global value chains and separating their activities across spatial and organizational boundaries. In sections on case examples, organizational forms, and consequences of fragmenting, they consider such aspects as new business models in-the-making in extant multinational corporations: digital transformation in a telco, global integration strategies in time of crisis: an event study of the impact of the global financial crisis on the exporting strategies of Turkish subsidiaries, tied up and shocked: how relational contracting with suppliers constrains global buyers during an economic crisis, global shift-back's: a strategy for reviving manufacturing competencies, and industrial district firms do not smile: structuring the value chain between local and global.

• Case examples: OWNERSHIP AND LOCATION IN THE SMALL DOMESTICAPPLIANCES INDUSTRY: THE DE’ LONGHI CASE; Diego Campagnolo, Arnaldo Camuffo New Business Models in-the-Makingin Extant MNCs: Digital Transformation in a Telco; Àngels Dasí, Frank Elter, PaulGooderham, Torben Pedersen Breaking up Global ValueChains: Evidence from the Global Oil and Gas Industry; Andrew Inkpen, KannanRamaswamy Global integration strategiesin times of crisis - an event study of the impact the Global Financial Crisishas on Turkish subsidiaries' exporting strategies; Camilla Jensen Organizational forms: Offshoring, Overshoring andReshoring:The Long-term Effects of Manufacturing Decisions In the United States; Gwendolyn Whitfield Backshoring: TowardsInternational Business and Economic Geography Research Agenda; PaweL Capik Tied up and shocked: Howrelational contracting with suppliers constrains global buyers during aneconomic crisis; Brian Hong, Markus Taussig,Sarah Wolfolds, Kjell Carlsson Towards a Multi-Path Theoryof Diversified International Expansion: The Case of Multinational MobileNetwork Operators; Frank Elter, Svein Ulset Consequences of fragmenting: The Performance Consequencesof Manufacturing Outsourcing: Review and Recommendations for Future Research; Roger Strange, GiovannaMagnani Global Shift-Back's: Astrategy for reviving manufacturing competences; Bella Belerivana Nujen, LiseLillebrygfjeld Halse Industrial district firms donot smile: structuring the value chain between local and global; Marco Bettiol, Chiara Burlina,Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria Outward R&D Spillovers inthe Home Country: The Role of Reverse Knowledge Transfer; Lamia Ben HamidaWalking Before You Can Run:Rethinking the Types of Knowledge, Networks and Institutions Emerging MarketSMEs Need to Benefit from GVCs; Gerald A. McDermott, CarloPietrobelli