Global Value Chains and Competitiveness

José Pla-Barber is Professor and Chair of International Business at the University of Valencia. He is a European International Business Academy (EIBA) fellow and an associate member at the John Dunning Center for International Business (University of Reading, UK.) Pla Barber has a distinctive list of publications in top-level journals in the field of International Business and has supervised several research projects.Andrea Pallás-Rocafull is a PhD Candidate at the University of Valencia, hired under a PhD grant from the Valencian Government (ACIF/2021/322).  She has presented her works at major conferences and has been awarded a price for her master's thesis by the Nebrija University (Madrid, 2021) and a prize for the most original new work at the doctoral colloquium in the AIB-UK&I Chapter Conference (2022).Ana Botella-Andreu is an Associate Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). Ana develops research on Global Strategy and particularly, she is interested in analyzing the configuration of the MNC for global expansion and related internationalization strategies.Cristina Villar is a Professor of International Business and Strategy at the University of Valencia. Her research interests are at the intersection of international Business, innovation and organizational learning, focusing on the management of the international company (global strategy and inter-regional expansion, HQ-subsidiary relationships, global value chains) both in SMEs and multinational firms.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I. Global Value Chains in Manufacturing industries: managing chain disruptions.- 2. Regionalization of Global Value Chains in Manufacturing Industries: Governance and Upgrading.- 3. Global Value Chain Disruptions: Firms' Resilience in Industrial Clusters.- 4. Factors affecting firms' upgrading in GVCs: A review and future research agenda.- ​​​​​​​Part II. Competitiveness of Firms in Manufacturing Industries.- 5. Strategies for High-Performing SMEs in Traditional Manufacturing GVCs.- 6. Reshoring and Regionalization of Global Value Chains: Evidence in Manufacturing Sectors.- 7. Public Policies for Revitalizing Manufacturing Industries and GVCs.