“…Stages of the production process are located across different countries, in a distributed manner, acknowledging multinational corporation (MNC) activity and the role of GVCs in a vast range of locations (Gereffi, ). This is also seen increasingly in the context of emerging market multinationals (Grosse, ; Pananond, , ). GVC research has given us the means, tools, and knowledge to measure linkages and trends that take place within value chains, including input–output measurements focusing on value‐added processes (Cattaneo, Gereffi, & Startitz, ; Suder, Liesch, Inomata, Meng, & Michaelova, ; UNCTAD, ).…”