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THE USE OF GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN/GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORK RELATED LITERATURE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH

Investigating the nature and degree of integration

Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Samia Ferdous Hoque and Matthew Alford

Introduction

We live in a world in which the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services are becoming progressively more complex, with increasing geographical spread and functional integration between economic activities (Dicken, 2015). These economic activities are undertaken within complex and geographically dispersed webs of production circuits and networks, conceptualised by a body of scholars as global production networks (GPNs) (Ernst & Kim, 2002; Coe, Dicken & Hess, 2008; Dicken, ...

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