Apple's financial success: The precariousness of power exercised in global value chains

Accounting Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 268-279

  Haslam, Colin ^a   Tsitsianis, Nick ^a   Andersson, Tord ^b   Yin, Ya Ping ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apple Inc business model; Global value chains; Point values; Value capture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886294018     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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