Synchronized Factories Latin America and the Caribbean in the Era of Global Value Chains /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blyde, Juan S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Production management.; Trade.; Business.; Commerce.; International economics.; Economics.; International Economics.; Operations Management.

The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation.  Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the Boeing...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Preliminaries: concepts, trends and frameworks
• Chapter 2: The participation of Latin America in international supply chains
• Chapter 3: Drivers of global value chain participation: cross-country analyses
• Chapter 4: What does it take to be part of an international value chain: firm-level evidence
• Chapter 5: Conclusions.