An Investment Perspective on Global Value Chains
Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Part I -- Chapter 1 Foreign Direct Investment and Global Value Chains -- Key findings -- Global value chains: Definition, measurement, and archetypes -- Foreign direct investment and global value chains are mutually reinforcing -- International production networks -- Hyperspecialization -- Leveraging foreign direct investment to upgrade into new global value chain archetypes -- Chapter 2 Multinational Corporations Shape Global Value Chain Development -- Key findings -- Multinational corporations are the drivers of global value chains -- The significant contributions of multinational corporations to global output and trade -- Positive correlation between the importance of multinational corporations and trade value across sectors and countries -- Multinational corporations' objectives and strategies in global value chains -- Bringing it together: Global value chain archetypes and multinational corporations' business strategies -- Superstar firms and the impacts on growth and distribution -- Chapter 3 The Internationalization of Domestic Firms -- Key findings -- Domestic firm participation in global value chains: Pathways -- Prerequisites to firm internationalization and global value chain participation -- Global value chain upgrading: A learning process to improve competitiveness -- Chapter 4 Using Investment Policies to Stimulate Global Value Chain Participation -- Key findings -- How investment policies can help global value chain participation -- Foreign direct investment policy and promotion -- Domestic firm internationalization policy -- Strategy and approaches for global value chain integration -- Chapter 5 Global Value Chains in the Time of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) -- Key findings.