relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3833/
title: The Organization of Global Supply Networks
creator: Fattorini, Loredana
creator: Rungi, Armando
creator: Zhu, Zhen
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
description: In this contribution, we introduce a network approach for the organization of global  production across national borders, beyond the sequential industry-level metrics proposed  in the previous literature. First, we show and argue that several characteristics of  global production processes would be lost in the analysis when assuming that they could  be proxied as linear sequences. Hence, we propose an index that assesses the relevance  of any input for the target output, including its role as an input of inputs. Thereafter,  we exploit an own-built firm-level dataset of about 20,489 U.S. parent companies integrating  more than 154,000 affiliates worldwide. Results show that the technological  relevance of an input in a directed supply network is also a good predictor for: i) the  probability that an input industry is actually integrated within a firm boundary; ii) the  number of affiliates that are controlled by the parent company and active in that input  industry.
publisher: IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
date: 2017-11
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nd
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3833/1/EIC_WP_8_2017.pdf
identifier:   Fattorini, Loredana and Rungi, Armando and Zhu, Zhen  The Organization of Global Supply Networks.  EIC working paper series  #8/2017    IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca    ISSN 2279-6894.