Global Production Networks

International Product Fragmentation and the Insertion of LAC in Global Production Networks – IDB call for proposal

Project summary:
The principal aims of the study would be to analyze the entire supply chain of two sectors, namely coffee and aerospace, including the structure of the supply chain, its potentials and possible failures. This can provide guidance as to the policies that can be implemented to deal with some of the problems and the lack of competition. The key factors of success as well as unsatisfactory outcomes may be (and usually are) due to the exclusion of firms from international supply chains, organizational slack or coordination failures along the supply chain which in turn undermine the development of capabilities of the suppliers, hinder the access to the advantages of the global production and distribution or create some disparities between suppliers and final contractors.
The research project will be driven by examining various sources of information including: Government regulatory, sectorial and trade agencies, Firms, Key actors. In particular, the interviews of firms will be carried out by the use of a grid of open questions. The choice is straightforward, as a multiple-choice questionnaire would be considered largely ineffective in this context. Then, a set of final interviews should be carried out to specific and selected actors belonging to private and public local or national institutions (such as chambers of commerce, consortia, regulatory bodies, etc.).

Researchers involved:

Prof. Fabrizio Cafaggi (coordinator) – Italian
European University Institute (EUI)

Prof. Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior – Brazilian
Law Faculty of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Luana F. Joppert Swensson – Brazilian/Italian
PostDoctoral researcher (Max Weber Fellow) – European University Institute

Tiago Andreotti e Silva – Brazilian
PhD candidate – European University Institute

Lucila Gabriel de Almeida – Brazilian
LL.M. candidate – Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Clarissa Piterman Gross – Brazilian
LL.M. candidate – Fundação Getúlio Vargas

Thiago Alves Ribeiro – Brazilian
LL.M. candidate – Fundação Getúlio Vargas