This article aims to examine the value chain of Samsung's smartphone business in context global market competition. The author will specifically focus on one aspect governance, namely hierarchy chain, as a strategic approach adopted by Samsung collaboration with its suppliers. study uses descriptive qualitative research method conducting literature reviews from various sources relevant case bei...

This article explicitly stated the concept of national value chain and “chain mode innovation” from the two perspectives: first is to organize capable enterprises embedded in the value chain of global industry, and urge them to stretch on both ends of the “smiling curve” to reach a higher level of cooperation, and then catch the leading position of the value chain; second is to construct techno...

corporate social responsibility is a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business activities and interactions  with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. in this global context, voluntary social and environmental practices of business which go beyond companies’ existing legal obligations play a major role in filling the governance gap in an innovati...

Less developed countries (LDCs) usually undertake technology-poor slices in the spatial hierarchy of global value chain (GVC). This paper proposes a measure for domestic technological contents (DTC) for LDCs in the GVC, and calculates the DTCs for China as a whole and Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces separately. Two findings emerge from the calculation: the DTC indexes of China and Jiangsu kept ...

Smallholder Global Value Chain Participation: The Role of Aggregation by Eva Szalkai Csaky Public Policy Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Frederick Mayer, Supervisor ___________________________ Gary Gereffi _________________________ Anirudh Krishna _______________________ Phyllis Pomerantz An abstract of a dissertation submitted in parti...