Profit Sharing, Industrial Upgrading, and Global Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence
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Liu, XiaoJi
Liu, Haiyue
Liu, ShiYi
Shen, Jim H.
Lee, Chien-Chiang
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Liu, XiaoJi, Haiyue Liu, ShiYi Liu, Jim H. Shen, and Chien-Chiang Lee. “Profit Sharing, Industrial Upgrading, and Global Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence.” CID Research Fellow and Graduate Student Working Paper Series 2020.123, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2020.Abstract
This paper constructed a simple model to illustrate the global supply chain profit sharing and industrial upgrading mechanism, from which it was found that the average profitability distribution in the different supply chain stages was determined by two main factors: (1) the average product of the labor in the firms at each production stage; and (2) the ratio of the output elasticity of capital to the output elasticity of labor in each stage. This paper also proposed a new industrial upgrading mechanism, the ‘inter-supply chain upgrading’, for supply chain firms. Rises in production complexity and increased factor intensity in each production stage were found to be the two essential conditions for the inter-supply chain upgrading. The empirical study results were found to be broadly consistent with the proposed theories.Terms of Use
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