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

• Author: Blyde, Juan S.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2014.; ©2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (153 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Prologue
• Purpose of the Report
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Preliminaries: Concepts, Trends, and Frameworks
• Supply Chains
• Offshoring Strategies
• Why Do Firms Fragment Production Internationally?
• What Do Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean Stand to Gain?
• Immense Opportunities but also Potential Risks
• Rationale for Public Policy
• Chapter 2: The Participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in International Supply Chains
• Evidence from Intra-industry Trade Indexes
• Evidence from Trade in Value Added
• Evidence from FDI Data
• Evidence from Trade in Services
• Recapitulating
• Chapter 3: The Drivers of Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Analyses
• Synchronizing Trade: The Role of Transportation, Communication, and Logistics Infrastructure
• Policy Issues
• Production Disintegration and Market Integration: Deep Integration Agreements at Work
• Policy Issues
• Production Unbundling and Firm Boundaries: Foreign Affiliates or Local Suppliers?
• Policy Issues
• Service Offshoring: Grasping the Intangibles
• Policy Issues
• Chapter 4: What It Takes to Join an International Value Chain: The Firm-Level Evidence
• No Ordinary Firms
• Empirical Regularities from Case Studies
• Empirical Regularity 1: Prior Exposure to International Practices and/or Markets
• Empirical Regularity 2: Targeting of Market Segments Based on Some Form of Comparative Advantage
• Empirical Regularity 3: Painstaking Accumulation of Capabilities and Use of Certifications as Evidence of Proficiency
• Empirical Regularity 4: Firms Leveraged Resources and Collaborated with Other Peers to Address Common Challenges
• Empirical Regularity 5: Continuing to Learn and Improving Capabilities Even After Joining a GVC
• Policy Lessons from the Empirical Regularities
• Local Linkages.
• Exploit Synergies Through a Coordinated Approach
• Chapter 5: Conclusions
• Appendix A
• Trade in Value Added and Set of Countries
• Comparator Groups
• FDI Dataset
• Appendix B
• Specification for the Model of Vertical FDI and Logistics Infrastructure
• The Effects of Economic Integration Agreements: Estimation and Data Sources
• Specification for the Model of Intra-firm Trade
• Specification for the Model of Service Offshoring
• Appendix C Specification for Measuring the Performance of Vertically Linked Affiliates
• References.