Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam

Chan, David Yuen-Tung; Yang, Chun

doi:10.1080/10670564.2021.2010859

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“…Following this perspective, firms may follow an institutional escapism motive (e.g. Wu & Deng 2020; Chan & Yang 2021). However, the negative effects and nature of risk within production networks can be characterised inter alia as transmissive and amplifying.…”

Section: Foreign Direct Investments Embeddedness and Riskmentioning

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“…Werner 2019;Bryson & Vanchan 2020;Françoso et al 2020). Chan and Yang (2021), for instance, state that the dynamic institutional context of the firm's home and host regions is largely neglected within the debate on the configuration of production networks. The authors criticise the 'overemphasis on the capitalist dynamics [that] runs the danger of ignoring the role of institutions' in GPN analysis (Chan & Yang 2021, p. 2).…”

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Mitigating Extra‐Firm Risk Environments – The Case of Turkish Firms in Germany

Völlers

2023

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Recent studies claim that the extra‐firm environment as a causal driver for configuration processes in global production networks is understudied. The case of Turkish cross‐border foreign direct investment into Germany is analysed to facilitate a better understanding of how transnationally embedded firms perceive and respond to extra‐firm risk environments. The global production network lens frames the discussion, applying the analytical categories of embeddedness, risk and value. Qualitative interviews with 15 Turkish firm managers in Germany and 24 experts in the field of Turkish‐German business relations were conducted. The analysis shows that transnationally embedded Turkish firms respond to extra‐firm risks by deepening their territorial embeddedness in the host country. While mimicking domestic firms on the level of societal embeddedness, Turkish firms dissociate from risk narratives related to their home country and valorise their association with the German embeddedness context on the firm and network level.

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Section: Foreign Direct Investments Embeddedness and Riskmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Mitigating Extra‐Firm Risk Environments – The Case of Turkish Firms in Germany

Völlers

2023

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…This dilemma is further complicated by industrial production being commonly transferred to emerging economies in the Global South (Rajeev et al, 2017), where legal frameworks are often insufficiently enforced due to lack of resources or corruption (Salmivaara, 2018). A further reason for lack of enforcement is that mobile industries can relatively easily relocate to competing economies with more favorable, from their perspective, legislative environments, and take their supply of international revenue with them (Chan & Yang, 2022). Thus, governments of consumer countries have to find ways to apply their powers to promote sustainable value chains when the majority of the chain, and most of the issues, lie outside their jurisdiction, and when the enforcement of legal frameworks is perceived by those with the power to do so, to be against their own interests.…”

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Smart Mixes for Sustainable Value Chain Management: An Evaluation of the Conflict Minerals, Palm Oil, and Green Bonds Sectors.

Weiner,

Home,

Schader

2023

Sage Open

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Fragmented governance of international value chains, operating in multiple jurisdictions, is insufficient to prevent social and environmental mismanagement. Smart Mixes, which are combinations of compulsory and voluntary measures, have been proposed as a possible means of securing environmental and social standards, but the concept has not been operationalized in the academic literature. We aim to identify the factors that have contributed to, or hindered, the performance of existing Smart Mixes in three international value chains (conflict minerals, palm oil, and bonds) using data from interviews with 32 experts, supplemented by a literature review. The results suggest that Smart Mixes are effective when they cover a specific issue under conditions in which enforcement mechanisms create a level playing field: thereby aligning public and private sector interests. The keys to success in a Smart Mix include positive interactions, harmonization, and complementary and supportive measures, which combine to motivate engagement by the private sector. We conclude that Smart Mixes can contribute to sustainability in value chains but their effectiveness is dependent on the strength of the relationships between the measures that compose them.

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“…This dilemma is further complicated by industrial production being commonly transferred to emerging economies in the Global South (Rajeev et al, 2017), where legal frameworks are often insufficiently enforced due to lack of resources or corruption (Salmivaara, 2018). A further reason for lack of enforcement is that mobile industries can relatively easily relocate to competing economies with more favourable, from their perspective, legislative environments, and take their supply of international revenue with them (Chan & Yang, 2021). Thus, governments of consumer countries have to find ways to apply their powers to promote sustainable value chains when the majority of the chain, and most of the issues, lie outside their jurisdiction, and when the enforcement of legal frameworks is perceived by those with the power to do so, to be against their own interests.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Smart Mixes for sustainable value chain management: An evaluation of the conflict minerals, palm oil and green bonds sectors.

Home¹,

Weiner²,

Schader³

2022

Preprint

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<p> </p> <p>Fragmented governance of international value chains, operating in multiple jurisdictions, is insufficient to prevent social and environmental mismanagement. Smart Mixes, which are combinations of compulsory and voluntary measures, have been proposed as a possible means of securing environmental and social standards, but the concept has not been operationalised in the academic literature. We aim to identify the factors that have contributed to, or hindered, the success of existing Smart Mixes in three international value chains (conflict minerals, palm oil, and bonds) using data from interviews with thirty two experts, supplemented by a literature review. The results suggest that Smart Mixes are effective when they cover a specific issue under conditions in which enforcement mechanisms create a level playing field: thereby aligning public and private sector interests. The keys to success in a Smart Mix include positive interactions, harmonisation, and complementary and supportive measures, which combine to motivate engagement by the private sector. We conclude that Smart Mixes can contribute to sustainability in value chains but their effectiveness is dependent on the strength of the relationships between the measures that compose them.</p>

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Institutional Escape and Embeddedness in the Cross-border Production Networks: Relocation of Chinese Electronics Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Vietnam

Cited by 8 publications

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Mitigating Extra‐Firm Risk Environments – The Case of Turkish Firms in Germany

Mitigating Extra‐Firm Risk Environments – The Case of Turkish Firms in Germany

Smart Mixes for Sustainable Value Chain Management: An Evaluation of the Conflict Minerals, Palm Oil, and Green Bonds Sectors.

Smart Mixes for sustainable value chain management: An evaluation of the conflict minerals, palm oil and green bonds sectors.

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