Add to ORKGSummary We use detailed firm-level data from 2008 to show how the world's largest home-furnishing retailer, IKEA from Sweden, provides its suppliers in China and SE Asia with significant technological support to improve their products and processes. This demonstrates that even buyer-driven global value chains, coordinated by large retailers, have the potential to contribute to technological upgrading among many small, inexperienced producers of labor-intensive products. Theoretically, this suggests that the current value-chain theory needs to take into account the existence of a "developmental" governance structure.global value chains, IKEA, technology support, supplier upgrading, Asia, China
Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyse the marketing strategy in China of the furnishing retail...
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This study investigates the challenges faced by Chinese manufacturing suppliers in Global Value Chai...
This research investigates the institutional challenges faced by Chinese manufacturing suppliers and...
Value chain analysis (VCA) has emerged since the 1990s as a novel approach for understanding how pow...
For more than a decade, market orientation approach has been most prevalent in marketing literature....
Fabless production, meaning manufacturing without owning fabrication facilities, has been suggested ...
Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyse the marketing strategy in China of the furnishing retail...
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing integration of developing countries into global value ch...
The multinational retailer IKEA represents a natural laboratory for study-ing international pricing ...
Sustainable development is a global issue. After entering the 21st century, human beings are more aw...
This study explores the process of global sourcing through a case of the Swedish furnishing retailer...
Mature industries in developed countries have been experiencing profound changes in the last few dec...
This research aims at contributing to the literature on global sourcing and particularly to the lite...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how a global supplier network can support and cont...
Although it has been widely accepted that insertion into global production networks may play a criti...
This study investigates the challenges faced by Chinese manufacturing suppliers in Global Value Chai...
This research investigates the institutional challenges faced by Chinese manufacturing suppliers and...
Value chain analysis (VCA) has emerged since the 1990s as a novel approach for understanding how pow...
For more than a decade, market orientation approach has been most prevalent in marketing literature....
Fabless production, meaning manufacturing without owning fabrication facilities, has been suggested ...
Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyse the marketing strategy in China of the furnishing retail...
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing integration of developing countries into global value ch...
The multinational retailer IKEA represents a natural laboratory for study-ing international pricing ...