Course details
Global value chains
INTE 80001A
The course explores challenges that companies face in organizing cross-border activities that span multiple value chain stages. The course lays down the foundation for understanding today's complex global organizational realities from the perspective of lead firm, suppliers, workers and governments.
The course explores challenges that modern corporations face in organizing cross-border activities that span multiple stages of the value chain and take place both within firm boundaries and at arm's length. Using a team-taught format and combining a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, the course lays down a strong foundation for understanding today's complex global organizational realities from the perspective of lead firms, suppliers, workers and governments.
Themes covered
- What are global value chains and why do we care?
- Mapping measuring and analyzing global value chains
- Global knowledge sourcing
- Intangibles in global value chains
- Global factory - an internalization perspective
- Industry 4.0 and global factory reconfiguration
- Global value chains governance and economic upgrading
- Social and environmental upgrading
- Private and public governance
- Global value chains in the age of de-globalization
Course code
INTE 80001A
Subject
International business
Program
PhD
Instruction mode
On-site learning
Credits
3