The nature of innovation in global value chains

Ambos, Björn; Brandl, Kristin; Perri, Alessandra; Scalera, Vittoria Giada; Assche, Ari Van

doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101221

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“…Interestingly, the intellectual movement surrounding innovation and knowledge transfer shifted toward examining these concepts in the context of global value chains (GVCs), where a plethora of firms are interconnected and give rise to an ecosystem (Sinkovics et al, 2019 ; Soontornthum et al, 2020 ). This trend is also evident in the recent findings related to knowledge connectivity issues in GVCs and new age firms in other journals (Ambos et al, 2021 ; Mudambi et al, 2017 ). Thus, the aforementioned topics pave the way for future studies that may explore the following: What are the antecedents and outcomes of knowledge transfer processes in GVCs?…”

Section: Major Themes In Mir Corpussupporting

confidence: 54%

Research Published in Management International Review from 2006 to 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Directions

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The Management International Review ( MIR ) celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020. In commemoration of this event, we use a bibliometric analysis to present a retrospective on the journal by analyzing its content for the years between 2006 and 2020. We find that the collaboration culture in MIR has risen over time with the increase in the median size of author teams. Moreover, the collaboration network has become more global over time. The methodology used in the journal is predominantly empirical and quantitative with archival data sources most commonly used. The bibliographic coupling of the MIR corpus reveals that the major themes in the journal revolve around “culture,” “emerging economies,” “innovation, knowledge transfer, and absorptive capacity,” “internationalization process,” “culture and entry modes,” and “internationalization and performance.” A comparison with other leading international business journals provides distinct pathways in which MIR may continue to grow. Finally, it is important to note that while the share of conceptual studies has decreased significantly in the last 15 years, the MIR editors want to see more novel and theoretically grounded conceptual articles in the journal.

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Section: Major Themes In Mir Corpussupporting

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Research Published in Management International Review from 2006 to 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Directions

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“…Thus, open innovation has become the most important area of application of innovative practices and the subsequent formation of innovation chains as elements of national and regional innovation systems that ensure the exchange of knowledge, experience, research results, new technologies, as well as the basis for attracting investments in the modernization of production and international cooperation [34,35]. At the same time, national and regional innovation systems of the leading sectors of national economies are embedded in global innovation systems, where networking is playing an increasingly important role [36][37][38][39].…”

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Strategic Innovation as a Factor of Adaptation of National Economies to the Development of Global Value Chains

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In age of sustainable development, strategic innovations have become the most important factor in the adaptation of national economies to dynamic global changes, encompassing trade and economic relations between the leading and developing countries of the World. At the same time, the task of this study was to reveal the complex and contradictory role of strategic innovations in the development of national economies against the background of the transformation of global value chains (GVCs). Main methods for solving the problem were empirical methods of comparative and structural analysis, as well as econometrics. The study analyzed 44 countries classified by the World Bank in the group of countries with per capita incomes below and above the average, as well as with high income. Results of the calculations made it possible to establish a highly differentiated relationship between the share of products manufactured by foreign companies operating in the host countries, on the one hand, and indicators of the dynamics of foreign direct investment (the number of researchers engaged in R&D, the number of technical specialists involved in research and development (R&D), the cost of research and development in the territory of the host countries), on the other hand. This made it possible to determine the role of strategic innovation in the adaptation of national economies. The established dependencies expand the understanding of the role of strategic innovations in the formation and further development of global value chains and their significance in evolution: from process and product innovations of individual companies to the formation of global innovation ecosystems.

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“…While the adoption of digital technologies can induce the adaptive restructuring of MNEs' production activities, the reverse is also possible. Indeed, since digitalization is a technology choice that MNEs make, a change in GVC structure (potentially driven by other major forces) can persuade an MNE to develop or adopt digital technologies (see also Ambos et al, 2021), introducing important interactions between major change forces. Similarly, MNEs' mainstreaming of sustainability is not simply the result of exogenously driven stakeholder and governmental pressure, as MNEs have direct influence on civil society and policy at all levels of formulation and implementation, and these actions affect the type of pressures that these actors put on MNEs.…”

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From the editors: Reflections on the nexus of complementarity between international business research and the policy practitioner community

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2021

J Int Bus Policy

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The nature of innovation in global value chains

Cited by 105 publications

References 88 publications

Research Published in Management International Review from 2006 to 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Directions

Research Published in Management International Review from 2006 to 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Directions

Strategic Innovation as a Factor of Adaptation of National Economies to the Development of Global Value Chains

From the editors: Reflections on the nexus of complementarity between international business research and the policy practitioner community

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