Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Visualizing the GVC research: a co-occurrence network based bibliometric analysis

  • Published:
Scientometrics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

During the past 30 years there has been growing interests in global value chains (GVC) across various disciplines including economics, business & management, economic geography, operational research, computer science, engineering, and so forth. In order to further explore GVC research, this paper employs bibliometric analysis based on co-occurrence network; specifically, it investigates the temporal evolution of disciplines and keywords co-occurrences, as well as the reference co-citation analysis between 1995 and 2014, in order to uncover the evolution of disciplines and research fronts, and identify the intellectual base of global value chains research.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5

References

  • Angel, D. P., & Rock, M. T. (2005). Global standards and the environmental performance of industry. Environment and Planning A, 37(11), 1903–1918.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Anner, M. (2012). Corporate Social Responsibility and Freedom of Association Rights The Precarious Quest for Legitimacy and Control in Global Supply Chains. Politics & Society, 40(4), 609–644.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Antràs, P., & Helpman, E. (2003). Global sourcing (No. w10082): National Bureau of Economic Research.

  • Arndt, S. W., & Kierzkowski, H. (2001). Fragmentation: New production patterns in the world economy: New production patterns in the world economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bair, J. (2005). Global capitalism and commodity chains: Looking back, going forward. Competition & Change, 9(2), 153–180.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bair, J. (2008). Analysing global economic organization: Embedded networks and global chains compared. Economy and Society, 37(3), 339–364.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Bair, J., & Gereffi, G. (2001). Local clusters in global chains: The causes and consequences of export dynamism in Torreon’s blue jeans industry. World Development, 29(11), 1885–1903.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baldwin, R. (2006). Globalisation: The great unbundling (s). Economic Council of Finland, 20(3), 5–47.

    MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Barney, J. (1991). Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management, 17(1), 99–120.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barrientos, S., & Smith, S. (2007). Do workers benefit from ethical trade? Assessing codes of labour practice in global production systems. Third World Quarterly, 28(4), 713–729.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bathelt, H., Malmberg, A., & Maskell, P. (2004). Clusters and knowledge: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation. Progress in Human Geography, 28(1), 31–56.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Boyack, K. W., Small, H., & Klavans, R. (2013). Improving the accuracy of co-citation clustering using full text. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(9), 1759–1767.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Braam, R. R., Moed, H. F., & Van Raan, A. F. (1991). Mapping of science by combined co-citation and word analysis: II: Dynamical aspects. JASIS, 42(4), 252–266.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chang, Y. W., Huang, M. H., & Lin, C. W. (2015). Evolution of research subjects in library and information science based on keyword, bibliographical coupling, and co-citation analyses. Scientometrics, 105(3), 2071–2087.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Charvet, F. F., Cooper, M. C., & Gardner, J. T. (2008). The intellectual structure of supply chain management: A bibliometric approach. Journal of Business Logistics, 29(1), 47–73.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, C., Cribbin, T., Macredie, R., & Morar, S. (2002). Visualizing and tracking the growth of competing paradigms: Two case studies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(8), 678–689.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cho, J. (2014). Intellectual structure of the institutional repository field: A co-word analysis. Journal of Information Science, 40(3), 386–397.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coase, R. H. (1937). The nature of the firm. Economica, 4(16), 386–405.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coe, N. M., Dicken, P., & Hess, M. (2008a). Global production networks: Realizing the potential. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 271–295.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coe, N. M., Dicken, P., & Hess, M. (2008b). Introduction: Global production networks—Debates and challenges. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 267–269.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coe, N. M., Hess, M., Yeung, H. W. C., Dicken, P., & Henderson, J. (2004). ‘Globalizing’regional development: A global production networks perspective. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(4), 468–484.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, W. M., & Levinthal, D. A. (1990). Absorptive capacity: A new perspective on learning and innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35, 128–152.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cruz, J. M. (2013). Mitigating global supply chain risks through corporate social responsibility. International Journal of Production Research, 51(13), 3995–4010.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cumbers, A., Nativel, C., & Routledge, P. (2008). Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 369–387.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dicken, P. (2003). Global production networks in Europe and East Asia: The automobile components industries. V The University of Manchester working paper, 7.

  • Dicken, P. (2007). Global shift: Mapping the changing contours of the world economy. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dicken, P., Kelly, P. F., Olds, K., & Wai-Chung Yeung, H. (2001). Chains and networks, territories and scales: Towards a relational framework for analysing the global economy. Global Networks, 1(2), 89–112.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dolan, C., & Humphrey, J. (2000). Governance and trade in fresh vegetables: The impact of UK supermarkets on the African horticulture industry. Journal of Development Studies, 37(2), 147–176.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dolan, C., & Humphrey, J. (2004). Changing governance patterns in the trade in fresh vegetables between Africa and the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning A, 36(3), 491–510.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dyer, J. H., & Singh, H. (1998). The relational view: Cooperative strategy and sources of interorganizational competitive advantage. Academy of Management Review, 23(4), 660–679.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eisenhardt, K. M. (1989). Building theories from case study research. Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 532–550.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ernst, D., & Kim, L. (2002). Global production networks, knowledge diffusion, and local capability formation. Research Policy, 31(8), 1417–1429.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ernst, D., & Ravenhill, J. (1999). Globalization, convergence, and the transformation of international production networks in electronics in East Asia. Business and Politics, 1(1), 35–62.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Feenstra, R. C. (1998). Integration of trade and disintegration of production in the global economy. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12, 31–50.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Frederick, S (2014). Combining the global value chain and global IO approaches. In International conference on the measurement of international trade and economic globalization.

  • Gereffi, G. (1999). International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain. Journal of International Economics, 48(1), 37–70.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gereffi, G. (2005). The global economy: Organization, governance, and development. The Handbook of Economic Sociology , 2, 160–182.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gereffi, G., Humphrey, J., & Kaplinsky, R. (2001). Introduction: Globalisation, value chains and development. IDS Bulletin, 32(3), 1–8.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gereffi, G., & Korzeniewicz, M. (1994). Commodity chains and global capitalism. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gibbon, P. (2001). Upgrading primary production: A global commodity chain approach. World Development, 29(2), 345–363.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gibbon, P., & Ponte, S. (2005). Trading down: Africa, value chains, and the global economy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Giuliani, E., Pietrobelli, C., & Rabellotti, R. (2005). Upgrading in global value chains: Lessons from Latin American clusters. World Development, 33(4), 549–573.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Glänzel, W., & Thijs, B. (2011). Using ‘core documents’ for detecting and labelling new emerging topics. Scientometrics, 91(2), 399–416.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goetschalckx, M., Vidal, C. J., & Dogan, K. (2002). Modeling and design of global logistics systems: A review of integrated strategic and tactical models and design algorithms. European Journal of Operational Research, 143(1), 1–18.

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Granovetter, M. (1985). Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology, 91, 481–510.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Griffis, S. E., Autry, C. W., Thornton, L. M., & Brik, A. B. (2014). Assessing antecedents of socially responsible supplier selection in three global supply chain contexts. Decision Sciences, 45(6), 1187–1215.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Grossman, G. M., & Helpman, E. (2005). Outsourcing in a global economy. The Review of Economic Studies , 72(1), 135–159.

    Article  MathSciNet  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Grossman, G. M., & Rossi-Hansberg, E. (2012). Task trade between similar countries. Econometrica , 80(2), 593–629.

    Article  MathSciNet  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Hamel, G., & Prahalad, C. K. (1990). Corporate imagination and expeditionary marketing. Harvard Business Review , 69(4), 81–92.

    Google Scholar 

  • Henderson, J., Dicken, P., Hess, M., Coe, N., & Yeung, H. W. C. (2002). Global production networks and the analysis of economic development. Review of International Political Economy, 9(3), 436–464.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hess, M., & Yeung, H. W. C. (2006). Whither global production networks in economic geography? Past, present and future. Environment and Planning A, 38(6), 249.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hummels, D., Ishii, J., & Yi, K. M. (2001). The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade. Journal of International Economics, 54(1), 75–96.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Humphrey, J., & Schmitz, H. (2002). How does insertion in global value chains affect upgrading in industrial clusters? Regional Studies, 36(9), 1017–1027.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Huxley, A. (2008). Brave new world. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Sprachen.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kamakaté, F., & Schipper, L. (2009). Trends in truck freight energy use and carbon emissions in selected OECD countries from 1973 to 2005. Energy Policy, 37(10), 3743–3751.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kaplinsky, R. (2000). Globalisation and unequalisation: What can be learned from value chain analysis? Journal of Development Studies, 37(2), 117–146.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kaplinsky, R., & Morris, M. (2001). A handbook for value chain research. Ottawa: IDRC.

    Google Scholar 

  • Korzeniewicz, M. (1994). Commodity chains and marketing strategies: Nike and the global athletic footwear industry. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, 247.

  • Kovács, G. (2008). Corporate environmental responsibility in the supply chain. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(15), 1571–1578.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kuhn, T. S., & Hawkins, D. (1963). The structure of scientific revolutions. American Journal of Physics , 31(7), 554–555.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Levy, D. L. (2008). Political contestation in global production networks. Academy of Management Review, 33(4), 943–963.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lund-Thomsen, P., & Nadvi, K. (2010). Global value chains, local collective action and corporate social responsibility: A review of empirical evidence. Business Strategy and the Environment, 19(1), 1–13.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marchi, V. D., Maria, E. D., & Micelli, S. (2013). Environmental strategies, upgrading and competitive advantage in global value chains. Business Strategy and the Environment, 22(1), 62–72.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Markusen, A. (1996). Sticky places in slippery space: A typology of industrial districts. Economic Geography, 72, 293–313.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Meixell, M. J., & Gargeya, V. B. (2005). Global supply chain design: A literature review and critique. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 41(6), 531–550.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miles, M. B., & Huberman, A. M. (1994). Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nadvi, K. (2008). Global standards, global governance and the organization of global value chains. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 323–343.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Newman, M. E. J., & Girvan, M. (2004). Finding and Evaluating Community Structure in Networks. Physical Review, 69(2), 1–16.

    Google Scholar 

  • North, D. C. (1990). Institutions, institutional change and economic performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • OECD. (2013). Interconnected economies: Benefiting from global value chains. Oxford: OECD Publishing.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ponte, S., & Gibbon, P. (2005). Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains. Economy and Society, 34(1), 1–31.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Porter, M. E. (1985). Competitive advantage: Creating and sustaining superior performance. New York: Free Press.

  • Porter, M. E. (1990). The competitive advantage of nations. Harvard Business Review, 68(2), 73–93.

    Google Scholar 

  • Qiu, J. P., Dong, K., & Yu, H. Q. (2014). Comparative study on structure and correlation among author co-occurrence networks in bibliometrics. Scientometrics, 101(2), 1345–1360.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rabbat, M. G., Figueiredo, M. A., & Nowak, R. D. (2008). Network inference from co-occurrences. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 54(9), 4053–4068.

    Article  MathSciNet  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Rock, M. T., Lim, P. L., & Angel, D. P. (2006). Impact of Firm-Based Environmental Standards on Subsidiaries and Their Suppliers: Evidence from Motorola-Penang. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 10(1–2), 257–278.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schiebel, E. (2012). Visualization of research fronts and knowledge bases by three-dimensional areal densities of bibliographically coupled publications and co-citations. Scientometrics, 91(2), 557–566.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schmitz, H. (2004). Local enterprises in the global economy: Issues of Governance and Upgrading. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Schmitz, H., & Knorringa, P. (2000). Learning from global buyers. Journal of Development Studies, 37(2), 177–205.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, A., Rainnie, A., Dunford, M., Hardy, J., Hudson, R., & Sadler, D. (2002). Networks of value, commodities and regions: Reworking divisions of labour in macro-regional economies. Progress in Human Geography, 26(1), 41–63.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Storper, M. (1997). The regional world. New York: Guilford Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sturgeon, T. J. (2002). Modular production networks: A new American model of industrial organization. Industrial and Corporate Change, 11(3), 451–496.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sturgeon, T., Van Biesebroeck, J., & Gereffi, G. (2008). Value chains, networks and clusters: Reframing the global automotive industry. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 297–321.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Teece, D. J., Pisano, G., & Shuen, A. (1997). Dynamic capabilities and strategic management. Strategic Management Journal, 18(7), 509–533.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wernerfelt, B. (1984). A resource-based view of the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 5(2), 171–180.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whitley, R. (1999). Divergent capitalisms: The social structuring and change of business systems: The social structuring and change of business systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Williamson, O. E. (1975). Markets and hierarchies (pp. 26–30). New York: Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Williamson, O. E. (1985). The economic institutions of capitalism. New York: Simon and Schuster.

    Google Scholar 

  • Winter, S. G., & Nelson, R. R. (1982). An evolutionary theory of economic change. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship.

  • Yan, E., & Ding, Y. (2012). Scholarly network similarities: How bibliographic coupling networks, citation networks, co-citation networks, topical networks, co-authorship networks, and co-word networks relate to each other. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(7), 1313–1326.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yeung, H. (2005). Rethinking relational economic geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30(1), 37–51.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yeung, H. W. C. (2009). Regional development and the competitive dynamics of global production networks: An East Asian perspective. Regional Studies, 43(3), 325–351.

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Yi, K. M. (2003). Can vertical specialization explain the growth of world trade? Journal of Political Economy, 111(1), 52–102.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yu, Y., Feng, K., & Hubacek, K. (2014). China’s unequal ecological exchange. Ecological Indicators, 47, 156–163.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhu, W., & Guan, J. (2013). A bibliometric study of service innovation research: Based on complex network analysis. Scientometrics , 94(3), 1195–1216.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zitt, M., & Bassecoulard, E. (1994). Development of a method for detection and trend analysis of research fronts built by lexical or co-citation analysis. Scientometrics, 30(1), 333–351.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful for the constructive advice from the anonymous reviewer. This paper is sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 15ZDB155), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71372124, No. 71428005), and the key research project of philosophy and social science of the Ministry of Education of China (14JZD017).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Business Strategic Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Linqing Liu

  2. School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Shiye Mei

Authors
  1. Linqing Liu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Shiye Mei
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Shiye Mei.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Liu, L., Mei, S. Visualizing the GVC research: a co-occurrence network based bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics 109, 953–977 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2100-5

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2100-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation