Global value networks: How to succeed in business without worrying about scale, distance or thin networks

Abstract

In recent years, global value chains and the role of New Zealand firms within them have attracted a great deal of interest from policy, academic and commercial communities. The interest is well merited: developing and deepening our understanding in this area is clearly important to maintaining and improving New Zealand’s position in a world which is both increasingly networked and increasingly competitive. Effective participation in global value chains underwrites our national prosperity, and safeguards our economic future.