Global Value Chains, Multinational Corporations and Food Security: Essential Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for a Sustainable Policy Agenda

Marina Papanastassiou () and George Mergos
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Marina Papanastassiou: Middlesex University Business School
George Mergos: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Chapter 5 in Food Security and Sustainability, 2017, pp 89-100 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we argue that a lack of understanding of how MNCs’ subsidiaries shape and change GVCs creates a theoretical, methodological void. Research on GVCs has failed to capture the determining role of the MNC network (including NEMs) and in particular the roles of subsidiaries. At the same time the IB literature similarly does not fully integrate the evolution of subsidiary roles in the analysis of GVCs. In this chapter we bridge these two theoretical aspects in order to establish an improved methodological framework, especially with a view to enriched policy recommendations.

Keywords: Supply Chain; Foreign Direct Investment; Food Security; Outward Foreign Direct Investment; Lead Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40790-6_5

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