Executive Insights: Managing the Transnational Value Chain—Strategies for Firms from Emerging Markets

To compete successfully in world markets, firms from emerging market and newly industrialized economies need to develop strategies to participate more broadly in the transnational value chain. More specifically, they need to move beyond cost-oriented commodity approaches that rely on low-cost labor and other resources to value-creating strategies that capture a greater share of the transnational value chain. This article presents six generic...