Industry 4.0, global value chains and international business

Multinational Business Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 174-184

  Strange, Roger ^a   Zucchella, Antonella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Big data and analytics; Global value chains; Industry 4.0; Internet of things; Robotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032465847     PISSN: 1525383X     EISSN: 20541686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MBR-05-2017-0028     Document Type: Article

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