eprintid: 3833
rev_number: 11
eprint_status: archive
userid: 6
dir: disk0/00/00/38/33
datestamp: 2017-11-28 08:58:51
lastmod: 2017-11-28 08:58:51
status_changed: 2017-11-28 08:58:51
type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Fattorini, Loredana
creators_name: Rungi, Armando
creators_name: Zhu, Zhen
creators_id: loredana.fattorini@imtlucca.it
creators_id: armando.rungi@imtlucca.it
creators_id: zhen.zhu@imtlucca.it
title: The Organization of Global Supply Networks
ispublished: pub
subjects: HB
subjects: HD28
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: imt_eic_working_paper
keywords: Keywords: global value chains, supply networks, vertical integration, upstreamness,
firm theory.   -  JEL Classification Numbers: F23, L23, L22, D57, F14.
abstract: 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.
date: 2017-11
date_type: published
number: 8
publisher: IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
pages: 38
institution: IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
issn: 2279-6894
citation:   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.      
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3833/1/EIC_WP_8_2017.pdf