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A value chain is a progression of activities that a business or firm performs in order to deliver goods and services of value to an end customer. The concept comes from the field of business management and was first described by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.
Global value chain. A global value chain ( GVC) refers to the full range of activities that economic actors engage in to bring a product to market. [1] The global value chain does not only involve production processes, but preproduction (such as design) and postproduction processes (such as marketing and distribution). [1]
A supply chain, sometimes expressed as a "supply-chain", [1] is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them [2] to end consumers [3] or end customers. [4] Meanwhile, supply chain management deals with the flow of goods within the supply chain in the most efficient ...
Value-stream mapping, also known as material- and information-flow mapping, [1] is a lean [2] -management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the customer. A value stream map is a visual [2] tool ...
Global Value Chains and Development: Redefining the Contours of 21st Century Capitalism is a 2018 book by American economic sociologist and academic Gary Gereffi published by Cambridge University Press and part of their Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains series. [1] The book discusses the Global Value Chains (GVC) framework ...
Smiling curve. In business management theory, the smiling curve is a graphical depiction of how value added varies across the different stages of bringing a product on to the market in an IT-related manufacturing industry. The concept was first proposed around 1992 by Stan Shih, the founder of Acer Inc., an IT company headquartered in Taiwan.
A knowledge value chain is a sequence of intellectual tasks by which knowledge workers build their employer's unique competitive advantage [1] and/or social and environmental benefit. As an example, the components of a research and development project form a knowledge value chain. Productivity improvements in a knowledge value chain may come ...
Extended enterprise. An extended enterprise is a loosely coupled, self-organizing network of firms that combine their economic output to provide products and services offerings to the market. Firms in the extended enterprise may operate independently, for example, through market mechanisms, or cooperatively through agreements and contracts.