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Global Value Chains, Multinational Corporations and Food Security: Essential Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for a Sustainable Policy Agenda

In: Food Security and Sustainability

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  • Marina Papanastassiou

    (Middlesex University Business School)

  • George Mergos

    (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Abstract

In this chapter we argue that a lack of understanding of how MNCs’ subsidiaries shape and change GVCs creates a theoretical, methodological void. Research on GVCs has failed to capture the determining role of the MNC network (including NEMs) and in particular the roles of subsidiaries. At the same time the IB literature similarly does not fully integrate the evolution of subsidiary roles in the analysis of GVCs. In this chapter we bridge these two theoretical aspects in order to establish an improved methodological framework, especially with a view to enriched policy recommendations.

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  • Marina Papanastassiou & George Mergos, 2017. "Global Value Chains, Multinational Corporations and Food Security: Essential Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for a Sustainable Policy Agenda," Springer Books, in: George Mergos & Marina Papanastassiou (ed.), Food Security and Sustainability, chapter 5, pages 89-100, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-40790-6_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40790-6_5
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