Timothy J. Sturgeon

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build a theoretical framework to explain governance patterns in global value chains and draw on three streams of literature, transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning, to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chain are governed and change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the case of contract manufacturing in the electronics industry to illustrate an emergent American model of industrial organization, the modular production network, which relies on codified inter-firm links and the generic manufacturing capacity residing in turn-key suppliers to reduce transaction costs, build large external economies of scale and reduce risk for network actors.

TL;DR: A growing body of work analyses globalisation processes from the perspective of "value chains" as mentioned in this paper, that is, international trade in goods and services should not be seen solely, or even mainly, as a multitude of arm's-length market-based transactions but rather as systems of governance involving multinational enterprises that link firms together in a variety of sourcing and contracting arrangements.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply global value chain (GVC) analysis to recent trends in the global automotive industry, with special attention paid to the case of North America, highlighting some of the defining characteristics of this important industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a set of terms and concepts that specify three critical value chain dimensions: organizational scale, geographic scale and types of value chain productive actors, and make a distinction between value chains and production networks.