This paper assesses the achievements and limitations of commodity chain research as it has evolved over the last decade. The primary objectives are two-fold. First, I highlight an important but generally unacknowledged break between the original world-systemsinspired tradition of commodity chain research and two subsequent chain approaches, the global commodity chain (GCC) and global value chai...

The last 25 years have seen significant changes in the organization of firms’ value chain. Fostered by technological innovation and institutional changes, companies are increasingly reconfiguring their global footprint to improve their access to specialization and location advantages. This phenomenon has significant implications to the research and practice of international business, as the fin...

every country actively and initiatively takes all kinds of policy steps to improve the international competitiveness of its industries and therefore improve national integrated competitiveness for the purpose of gaining economic benefits under the context of economic globalization. therefore, studies of moreover, projects launched by the cluster had to be endorsed by the growers and one criteri...