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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Global value chain"”.
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Exploring the global value chain of gold beneficiation in Zimbabwe
… academic research that has been done around the global value chains (GVCs), and their importance as a means of achieving or maximising the value earned along the global value chain. Additional work has also been done on GVC configuration and upgrading. However, existing literature does not …
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Governance in global value chains: Exploring multiple layers of lead-firm orchestration
… several layers of participating firms in the global value chain of the automotive industry, and how new forms of governance shape the development of the Brazilian and Chinese automotive industry. In particular, it examines how the local supply firms from Brazil and China can integrate and …
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The role of law in corporate human rights due diligence
… include domestic legislation, international law, global standards, industry regimes, and litigation and legal influencers included external stakeholders such as investors and customers. This research addresses the gap in empirical literature in business and human rights generally and specifically …
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Continuous improvement at a multinational company : dealing with uncertainty in the global supply chain and analyzing implementation dynamics
This thesis explores the problem of global supply chain flexibility in the context of a multinational commonly that we refer to as Company X. Company X faces competitive markets, increasingly demanding customers, and internal challenges due to the global extension of previously local business …
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Impact of Human Capital on Global Value Chains in Asia and Southeast Asian Region
… between human capital development and global value-chain (GVC) activities in East Asia. It seeks to examine the following: (a) the impact of human capital development on the domestic firm participation in global value chains, (b) impact of human capital development and the impact of SME …
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The Labour and Human Rights issues in Sri Lankan global supplier companies of UK multinationals: The influencing factors
… It specifically examines the influences of global value chain (GVC) governance structures, institutional forces and legitimacy seeking intentions of MNCs on L&HR issues in garment, rubber and tea sectors. The thesis is based on three theoretical domains; Global value chain framework, …
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Exploring Green industrial policy in South Africa through the lens of vertically specialized industrialization
… African economy by increasing the range and value-add of domestically manufactured products. This thesis uses global value chain analysis to determine what ways local wind and solar manufacturing firms relate to this goal by pursuing innovation, upgrading, workforce development, and regional …
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The dynamics of Zambia's copper value chain
… patterns. My aim is to examine whether the new value chain drivers, China and India, are characterised by distinctive value chain governance patterns and whether this impact on the opportunities and constraints for the localisation and development of a mining supply industry. I also analyse the …
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From grassroots to global: unintended consequences of a Bolivian quinoa economy
… of food sovereignty by participating in a global quinoa economy. This research gives agency to the farmers by reframing the Bolivian quinoa story to show how farmers succeeded in overcoming “development” projects. My research is inspired by two brief periods of time I spent living in …
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Specifying the structure of the soybean-meat value chain: a taxonomical approach
… in literature does not consider the complete value chain from soybean to meat production. This approach hinders the possibility to study the interaction between soybean and meat production. This thesis takes an alternative approach and examine the soybean-meat value chain at a global scale. …
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Supply Chain Resilience for Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Federal Government
This research has aimed to understand supply chain resilience in the federal government, specifically healthcare PPE supply chain resilience. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the fragility of global supply chains. Before COVID-19, low-cost medical supplies such as personal …
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Exploring the factors and attributes of value-adding activities and their impact on moderators and mediators within Rice Value Chains in the Ayeyarwady Delta
… In addition, customers often link quality to value subconsciously. This thesis intends to identify gaps in operational and management theory and practice between three independent actors, first mediators or business owners within 'rice milling production and second moderators or government …
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SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES AND GREENWASHING ALONG FOOD VALUE CHAINS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS
… of companies operating along different agri-food value chains were selected, and three original datasets were created by combining data from the Orbis database and from a content analysis carried out on company websites. In Chapter 1, I explore the firm characteristics which shape the pattern of …
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Value chain competitiveness analysis: entrepreneurial behavioural practices determining business success in Uganda's commercial sugar and forestry industries
Global value chain (GVC) participation has been placed on a high level policy agenda by Development Partners as a prescription template for agri-business growth and competitiveness of developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa. Despite, the GVC participation popularity in application, …
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The Role of Supplier Willingness in Supplier Development
The dissertation is a case study focusing on supplier development (SD) practices of SMEs in information technology outsourcing (ITO) sector. From the dyadic perspective, the research explored three key issues: (1) supplier development activities of SME firms in ITO sector, (2) the role of supplier …
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Market organisation and the process of economic development: the case of the partially liberalised cocoa market in Ghana.
… international dimensions of the Ghanaian cocoa chain. Given the span of the Cocobod's influence along the Ghanaian cocoa chain, it has been necessary to develop a cross disciplinary theoretical framework, using New Institutional Economics for a microanalysis of the domestic cocoa chain, and …
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LA FRAMMENTAZIONE DELL'ATTIVITA' IMPRENDITORIALE IN ITALIA: PROBLEMI, ESITI E SPIEGAZIONI A PARTIRE DA UNO STUDIO DI CASO
… have assigned Italy to a low position in the global value chain. Industrial process lag has often been considered the heritage of rural roots, strictly related to human relations and institutions preceding industrialization. Nevertheless, this distinctive form adopted by industrial development …
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Essays on Small Remote Island Economies (SRIES)
… analyses individual cases of SRIEs through a global value-chain framework. T&C global fragmentation of production was shaped by quotas. A distance effect on trade is revealed as trade with relatively remote partners declined post-MFA. The results of a unit-value analysis support the thesis …
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A pragmatist context-based assessment of the economic implications of eating patterns in a small sub-Saharan developing economy: Focus on Togo
… national food system governance on which globalization, socio-economic and demographic transitions are increasingly influential. Normative, critical and grounded in poststructuralism and cultural/relativist pragmatism, the thesis shifts focus from generic material challenges emphasized in …
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