Integrating SMEs into Global Value Chains
Title | Integrating SMEs into Global Value Chains PDF eBook |
Author | ADBI |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2016-03-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9292571362 |
Globalized production networks, or global value chains, provide an opportunity for SMEs to upscale their business models and to grow across borders. This process can enhance SME competitiveness, create more jobs, and promote inclusive growth in developing Asia. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ADB Institute (ADBI) recognize the importance of integrating SMEs into global value chains. To provide pathways for such integration, this study examines ways of encouraging participation in value chains, and explores policy solutions to address the financial and nonfinancial barriers faced by these enterprises.
Enhancing the Role of SMEs in Global Value Chains
Title | Enhancing the Role of SMEs in Global Value Chains PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | 102 |
Release | 2008-10-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264051031 |
This report identifies the ways in which governments, the business community, and international organisations can facilitate SMEs’ gainful participation in global value chains through policies, practices and targeted support programmes.
Inclusive Global Value Chains
Title | Inclusive Global Value Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Ana Paula Cusolito |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2016-08-23 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1464808430 |
This report's focus is making global value chains (GVCs) more inclusive. To achieve inclusiveness is by overcoming participation constraints for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and facilitation access for Low Income Developing Countries (LIDCs). The underlying assumption is that most firms in LIDCs are SMEs. Even larger firms in LIDCs are likely to face similar challenges to SMEs, including a less supportive domestic operating environment and weaker institutions that lead to higher fixed costs and challenges to compete on the international markets. The two major points of this report are (1) participation in GVCs is heterogeneous and uneven, across and within countries, and (2) available data and survey-based evidence suggest that SMEs’ participation in GVCs is mostly taking place through indirect contribution to exports, rather than through exporting directly. The report makes the case that policy action, at the national and multilateral level, can make a difference in achieving more inclusive GVCs through: a holistic approach to reform spanning trade, investment, and domestic policies countries and investments in expanding the statistical base and analysis of GVCs and in sharing knowledge on best practices on enabling policies and programs. The report elaborates on three broad areas of recommendations: (1) establishing a trade and investment action plan for inclusiveness defining clear and achievable objectives on trade and investment policy and identifying the necessary complementary domestic policy actions; (2) complementing trade, investment, and domestic policy actions by providing the needed political leadership and support to enhance collaboration across the sectors, and establishing global platforms for sharing best practices; and (3) providing political support for the establishment of a multi-year plan to expand and upgrade the statistical foundation necessary to increase the capacity of all countries to identify and implement policies that can contribute to stronger, more inclusive and sustainable growth and development, globally.
Integrating SMEs in Global Value Chains
Title | Integrating SMEs in Global Value Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Raphael Kaplinsky |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 81 |
Release | 2001 |
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Global Value Chains in a Changing World
Title | Global Value Chains in a Changing World PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Kay Elms |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9789287038821 |
A collection of papers by some of the world's leading specialists on global value chains (GVCs). It examines how GVCs have evolved and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing world. The approach is multi-disciplinary, with contributions from economists, political scientists, supply chain management specialists, practitioners and policy-makers. Co-published with the Fung Global Institute and the Temasek
Integrating Developing Countries' SMEs Into Global Value Chains
Title | Integrating Developing Countries' SMEs Into Global Value Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 109 |
Release | 2010 |
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Local Clusters in Global Value Chains
Title | Local Clusters in Global Value Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Valentina De Marchi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 2017-07-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1351723995 |
The international fragmentation of economic activities – from research and design to production and marketing – described through the lens of the global value chain (GVC) approach impacts the structure and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) agglomerated in economic clusters. The consolidation of GVCs ruled by global lead firms and the recession of 2008-09 exacerbated the pressures on cluster actors that based their competitive advantage on local systems, spurring an increasing heterogeneity, both across and within clusters, that is still overlooked in the literature. Drawing on detailed studies of different industries and countries, Local Clusters in Global Value Chains shows the co-evolutionary trajectories of clusters and GVCs, and the role of firms and their strategies in organizing manufacturing and innovation activities in the context of ongoing technological shifts. The book explores the tension between place-based variables and global drivers of change, and the possibility for territories containing such clusters to prosper in the new global scenario. By adopting insights from the GVC framework and management studies, the book discusses how the internationalization strategies of firms create opportunities as well as constraints for adaptive upgrading in clusters. This book is of interest to both researchers and policy-makers who are interested in the dynamic sources of competitive advantage in the global economy.