Industry Architectures and Global Dynamics

Center for Strategic Management and Globalization invites you to a seminar by Michael Jacobides from London Business School.

The seminar will introduce the drivers and, most important, the implications of different ways to organize and divide labour along the value chain. Drawing on Michael Jacobides' work on "industry architectures" and his previous publications on what drives a sectors' vertical structure, he will consider how these patterns differ between countries. He will look at how comparative value chain structure/industry architecture mediates the ability to expand globally, on the basis of a recently accepted conceptual paper. He will then present data on success in global expansion in Eastern Europe that provide empirical support for the main thesis. Finally, he will present, by way of extension, his other ongoing empirical project with Carliss Baldwin on the evolution of profit along an industry's architecture.

The paper for the seminar can be downloaded here.