Global Value Chains: A Framework for Analysis

Sobel-Read, Kevin B.

doi:10.5235/20414005.5.3.364

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“…They may base their analysis on existing knowledge of global value chains, rather than the contracts which comprise those chains. 95 They may analyze contracting practices from standard form contracts that are publicly available on corporate websites. 96 Or they may ground their analysis in interviews of supply chain participants rather than textual review of the contracts themselves.…”

Section: The Private Lives Of Contractual Textsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnational Law as Unseen Law

Affolder

2019

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Section: The Private Lives Of Contractual Textsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnational Law as Unseen Law

Affolder

2019

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“…The process starts from the research and the design of a product, continues with its production, and ends with the retail stage. These input-output operations "take place through coordinated chain components that stretch systemically across multiplefrom a few to a few thousandfirms" 62 . The structural and geographical diversification of multinational enterprises constitutes an important dimension of the development of GVCs, with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) acting as a catalyst for trade integration.…”

Section: A Comparative Advantage and Global Value Chains: The Transfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Updating the EU Internal Market Concept

Lianos

2018

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The study analyses the EU Internal market from a dynamic and a contextual perspective, taking into account, not just the normative changes brought by the intense legislative and judicial activity in this area, but also the important economic and technological transformations that have largely altered the structure of the global economy in the last two to three decades. These could, in my view, challenge the first principles upon which the EU economic integration process and, in particular the "single market" idea, is based. This "updating" of the Internal market project is essential if one is to critically reflect on the role and the specificity of the EU integration process, in the context of the broader globalization movement. The first part of the paper introduces the "neo-functionalist" perspective, which has largely influenced the EU economic integration process, from its incipiency, and explores its theoretical linkages with trade theory (the law of one price), thus presenting the fundamental tenets of positive EU Internal market law. The second part delves into the subsequent mutation of the economic integration ideal towards the more modular and scalar concept of "regulatory convergence". Opening the black box of economic integration will lead us to analyse its transformation, as a result of a paradigm shift currently occurring in the organization of the global process of economic production, with the development of global value chains, and the important role of technology, in particular the Internet, in promoting economic integration not through law, but through code. The study predicts that addressing more systematically the effect of both private and public obstacles to trade should take centre-stage if one is to opt for a more holistic and dynamic perspective in analysing the process of economic integration. A more extensive intervention of the competition law tool and other regulatory initiatives against private restrictions to trade is therefore to be expected in the future, these areas of law taking a more prevalent part in the EU Internal market law compass. The study discusses in some detail the recent legislative and jurisprudential developments with regard to geo-blocking and geo-filtering practices. The last part of the study provides some concluding thoughts on the need for the EU Internal market concept to be updated and raises some questions with regard to its ontology in the context of a globalized economy. 3 and technological transformations that have largely altered the structure of the global economy in the last two to three decades. These could, in my view, challenge the first principles upon which the EU economic integration process and, in particular the "single market" idea, is based. This updating of the Internal market project is essential if one is to critically reflect on role and the specificity of the EU integration process, in the context of the broader globalization movement.The study analyses the EU Internal market from a dynamic and a contextual perspective, taking into...

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“…Yet even before the pandemic's outbreak, sweatshop workers worldwide were laboring under harsh conditions. Despite universal support for the idea that workers should enjoy basic labor rights-as reflected in widespread national regulations and a long list of international conventions and bilateral and multilateral trade agreements-millions of production workers around the world continue to toil for excessive hours, be paid less than the minimum wage, and endure routine infringement of their basic labor rights (Anner, 2019;Sobel-Read, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%