Mapping integrative trade: conceptualising and measuring global value chains

International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-257

  Sturgeon, Timothy J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

business functions; Global Value Chains; GVCs; integrative trade; value chain modularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951661431     PISSN: 17531942     EISSN: 17531950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTLID.2008.019973     Document Type: Article

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79. Of course, a second variable in the transactions cost framework, frequency of transactions, acknowledges that asset-specific activities tend to remain outsourced when minimum scale economies cannot be reached through internal consumption, a notion that was developed separately in a classic article by Richardson (1972).
80. Of course, field-testing would be needed to develop appropriate cut-offs for collecting data on linkages to affiliates and outside vendors, since establishments typically obtain inputs (goods and services) from multiple sources and locations.