This paper offers a review of published conceptual and empirical studies indexed in the
main academic search databases, covering literature on the internationalization of small and …

This paper contributes to ongoing work which seeks to bring together the national innovation
system and global value chain literatures for the study of economic development. We depart …

Circular Economy promises to achieve sustainability by decoupling economic growth from
resource extraction and environmental losses. However, it requires a systemic change in the …

The production and trade activities of global value chains (GVC) increasingly contribute to
the gross domestic product (GDP) of develo** countries. However, while the development …

The burgeoning literature on global value chains (GVCs) has recast our understanding of
how industrial clusters are shaped by their ties to the international economy, but within this …

Little research has considered the potential influence of distant, external pressures on the
implementation of firms''green'innovations, nor how internal firm resources might moderate …

This study investigates the impact of global value chain (GVC) embeddedness on corporate
polluting behavior at the micro level. Although existing studies have examined the …

The location of economic activities in specific territories and the reorganization of industries
into global value chains have reshaped analysis on the competitiveness of regions and …

Using a network perspective of multinational firms, this article develops conceptions of
global cluster networks and global city-region networks that are based on foreign direct …

In the last 15 years, Italy's industrial districts (IDs) have been undergoing profound changes.
Based on a number of empirical studies, this article analyzes several phenomena now …