global value chains

The Global Value Chains Initiative provides an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between firms and other economic actors from the global to the local levels of analysis.  The Initiative seeks to disseminate recent developments and applications of this research agenda and to foster the development of an international community of global value chain researchers using the tools provided by the Internet. The GVC initiative pulls together up-to-date comprehensive lists of both researchers and publications. Global Value Chains has become a standard for analysis and is being widely used by scholars practitioners, policy makers, and international development specialists.

This Initiative has received funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.