They have to move up the value chain or they will face a labor shortage.
In some countries that had exchange-rate appreciations exports moved up the value chain: this also helped.
This approach can reduce costs, lower risk, and create tangible examples of sustainability throughout the value chain.
Tariff escalation is, in effect, a tax on every step a country takes along the value chain.
The Programme provides a solid foundation in cultural economics, going through the value chain of cultural tangible and intangible resources.
As the economic engines gear up, the eventual rewards should be distributed fairly and throughout the value chain.
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As China moves up the value chain, it will export cheaper products in new industries, such as cars.
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Founded in 1955, Sea-Gull has also looked to go up the value chain despite its large-scale production volume.
"We couldn't just sell product -- we had to actually get involved in the value chain downstream, " he says.
If each and every activity of the value chain is gradually farmed out, what binds labor with management and stockholders?
Since the idea of the value chain was first introduced, it has been taken in a number of different directions.
They know all the technology business models, understand the value chain and have an extremely strong global network of contacts.
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These are different technologies, very different parts of the value chain where it is difficult for one player to dominate.
Other parts of the value chain will be made up of complex web of relationships between partners, suppliers, contractors and customers.
He posits that the heart of good strategy is finding unique ways to serve your customers, everywhere along the value chain.
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The big question is whether the Philippine BPO industry, having conquered the call-centre market, can now move up the value chain.
All other aspects of the value chain can be more efficiently delivered by the emerging web of specialists scalpels in their own domains.
More problematic is the incentives the value chain creates for sales people.
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And downstream, the new multi-brand retailers and the internet-savvy consumers are together gaining power and a bigger chunk of the value chain.
Our Index also confirmed that solar market leaders are focusing on vertically integrating across the value chain to capture higher margin segments.
First, the primary: a lifetime in the value chain connecting China and the USA has ruined me for any kind of leisure shopping.
Just when you are about to applaud the cultural compatibility of a proposed merger someone starts talking about upstream synergies in the value chain.
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How will they influence efforts by the developing countries to move further up the value chain by producing processed goods rather than just commodities?
But if it accelerates its move up the value chain, as it clearly aspires to do, then America is in for even harder times.
In 1993, Richard Norman and Rafael Ramirez argued that the value chain was outdated, suited to a slower changing world of comparatively fixed markets.
For Song to fulfill his dream, he must overcome the same challenge that faces all Asian contract manufacturers aiming to move up the value chain.
That will allow China to move up the value chain and redeploy its labor force away from assembling high tech products and sewing fabric together.
They also learn from partners up and down the value chain.
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The question for policy makers interested in regional economic growth and job creation is what is the most valuable part of the value chain to occupy?
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