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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Production Networks"”.
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Essays in Industrial Policy, Misallocation and Production Networks
… The second and third chapters study firm networks in Chile and Turkey respectively— using a common theoretical framework, the former studies the incidence of distortions while the latter studies the propagation of a large refugee shock. The first chapter introduces a method to study the …
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China's ICT industry and East Asian regional production networks
… of China’s putative rise in East Asian regional production networks (EARPN) with regard to the ICT industry. Many research studies have focused on China’s strengthening military and political power or are devoted to China’s astounding economic achievements vis-à-vis Japan’s recession in the world …
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The Role of Intermediary Firms in Pakistan’s Integration into Automotive Global Production Networks
… and developmental implications of Global Production Networks (GPNs) in the automotive sector, with a specific focus on the Lahore region of Pakistan. Drawing on the GPN framework, which conceptualizes production as a spatially and institutionally embedded process coordinated across …
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Structure, nature and determinants of international production networks in East Asia: the automobile industry
… and determinants of East Asia’s automobile production networks. To understand the structure of East Asia’s automobile production, we explored the trade networks in terms of the major roles played by each East Asian country, their main trading partners, and the network patterns for the years …
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GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS, STRATEGIC COUPLING AND THE DYNAMICS OF INDUSTRIAL UPGRADING IN PEARL RIVER DELTA, CHINA
While export-oriented industrialization has become a well-known strategy for promoting industrial growth in a latecomer region, whether local firms can catch up with transnational corporations is still in question. By using the concept of strategic coupling, this thesis proposes a four-fold …
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Access in a global rattan production network: a case study of rattan originating from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia and upgraded for sale in international markets
… that connect different stages of commodity production and retail. This thesis adopts a Global Production Network framing in order to investigate the case of rattan cane and furniture. I examine the ways in which actors benefit from rattan (a non-timber forest product) and elucidate power …
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Regional Integration in Africa: Theories, Concepts, and Lessons for Successful Policy Creation and Implementation
… regional value chains that can improve regional production networks and looks at how the establishment of the AfCFTA promotes this process.
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Innovation and the state : development strategies for high technology industries in a world of fragmented production : Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan
… carved out different positions in the global IT production networks. Of these emerging economies, the Taiwanese, Israeli, and Irish have successfully nurtured the growth of their IT industries. This dissertation sets out to establish that emerging economies have more than one option for …
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FROM NATIONAL LINES TO GLOBAL NETWORKS: STRATEGIC COUPLING AND EVOLVING STATE-FIRM DYNAMICS IN SINGAPORE’S TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
… concept of ‘strategic coupling’ in the global production network (GPN) approach, this thesis addresses this lacuna by examining the evolving state-firm relations underpinning the globalisation of Singapore’s telecommunications industry since the 1980s. From a centralised monopoly structure, I …
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The implications of lead firm sourcing strategies and value chain governance on suppliers and sector development: the case of the South African textile and apparel industry
… the crucial role of lead firms in coordinating production networks and shaping supplier relationships. However, little research has focused on the strategies of lead firms from the Global South, particularly in Africa's apparel industry. Through an integrated analysis of value chain governance, …
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Institutions, public policy and the product life cycle : the globalization of biomanufacturing and implications for Massachusetts
… ("metanational companies") and new models of production ("modular production networks") that "break free" from geography. In this global economy, many believe that manufacturing has little future in a high-skilled, high-wage region, given competition from lower cost countries. High-tech …
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Streaming Transfer Optimization for Distributed Science Workflows
… and real-world workloads using high-performance production networks and showed that it offers up to an order of magnitude performance improvement over state-of-the-art solutions.
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Food Security and Social Networks: Impacts for Smallholder Farmers in the Mount Elgon Region of Kenya and Uganda
… relationship between smallholder farm household networks for food acquisition and agricultural production, food security and dietary quality in the Mount Elgon region of western Kenya and eastern Uganda. Food security and dietary quality were measured through calorie consumption of the female …
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A Network Mobility Survey and Comparison with a Mobile IP Multiple Home Address Extension
… because they are the only solutions fit for production networks, not necessarily because they are the best performing solutions. Indeed, nearly all of the other solutions are promising alternatives and some, such as mobile ad hoc network (MANET) routing protocols and the solutions based on …
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Topics in Dynamic programming and Economic Networks
… monetary policies. Complementing this, economic networks stand as another critical tool, recognising the dynamic interactions among a multitude of diverse agents. The network models provide a comprehensive analysis of how individual agent behaviours, incentives, and strategic interactions …
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Topics in Dynamic programming and Economic Networks
… monetary policies. Complementing this, economic networks stand as another critical tool, recognising the dynamic interactions among a multitude of diverse agents. The network models provide a comprehensive analysis of how individual agent behaviours, incentives, and strategic interactions …
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The Evolution of the U.S. Trade Regime: From New Deal to Neoliberal, 1971 – 2001
… economies of trade partners and support global production networks. The neoliberal regime’s crystallization in the 1990s embedded new fault lines that helped produce the current reconfiguration.
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Integrated supply and production network design
… waste through integration of its supply and production networks. The current manufacturing system is optimized for high volume products with low demand variation signals, and is used for all products regardless of demand characteristics. The effects of such a system on the supply network are …
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Understanding resilience in large networks
… analysis of robustness in large interconnected networks. Many real life systems in transportation, economics, finance and social sciences can be represented as networks. The individual constituents, or nodes, of the network may represent vehicles in the case of vehicular platoons, production …
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