At the territorial roots of global processes: Heterogeneous modes of regional involvement in Global Value Chains
Roberta Capello,
Roberto Dellisanti and
Giovanni Perucca
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Roberto Dellisanti: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Milano, Italy
Giovanni Perucca: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Milano, Italy
Environment and Planning A, 2024, vol. 56, issue 3, 833-848
Abstract:
Despite the large evidence of the recent globalization phenomenon at national level, very little is known about the involvement of regional economies in Global Value Chains (GVCs). Instead, the regional dimension of GVCs is of primary importance since regions require an absolute advantage to be part of an international production chain. It can in fact be easily the case that within the same country both the participation and the gains from GVCs strongly differ among regions. In going to the territorial roots of GVCs, the paper aims to conceptualize a taxonomy of different modes in which regions can be involved in GVCs, based on different intensity of participation and rewarding conditions. Based on regional trade in value added matrices, the taxonomy is applied to the manufacturing sector at NUTS2 regions in Europe, combining two indicators of regional participation and ‘terms of trade’ imposed in the chain. Although national patterns are visible, and a clear divide between Eastern and Western Europe emerges, the modes of involvement are highly diversified within countries. Moreover, through a multinomial logit model, the local characteristics associated with the different roles that regions can have within GVCs are looked for. Their identification has far-reaching normative consequences that intervene in the capacity of regions to gain from participation in GVCs, and to mitigate the interregional income distribution effects that this involvement may cause.
Keywords: Global Value Chains; European regions; globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X231211788
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