OPPORTUNITIES FOR LINKING GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS RESEARCH TO POLICY-MAKING IN TÜRKİYE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

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2022-12
Güler, Esra
With the rise of liberal trade and investment policies and technological advances since the 1990s, the concept of global value chains (GVCs) has gained increasing interest not only from academicians but also from practitioners and policy-makers. The GVC framework helps understand the organization of industries worldwide, and firm and government strategies to create and capture value-added, with specific emphasis on policy to identify upgrading paths for economic and social development. In the last decade, the GVCs have been challenged by changing global dynamics, especially by the 2008 financial crisis and, more recently, the Covid-19 pandemic. Against this background, this study investigates the evolution of GVC studies and maps key concepts and shifting trends with an aim to develop policy suggestions accordingly. Using bibliometric analysis, the thesis aims to answer whether the scale and scope of GVC studies changed over time, and how their focus evolved especially after Covid-19. Considering the increasing GVC participation of developing countries, including Türkiye, the thesis explores whether there is an associated link with more research interest in those countries compared to developed economies and if so, in which direction. The results of the descriptive analysis reveal that compared to other developing countries’, research and evidence-based policy-making in Türkiye do not engage in GVC framework even though the country has been participating in GVCs. However, considering Türkiye’s ambitious vision to upgrade in global value chains, there is a potential to put forth a coordinated and comprehensive effort to boost GVC research and link it with policy-making.

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E. Güler, “OPPORTUNITIES FOR LINKING GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS RESEARCH TO POLICY-MAKING IN TÜRKİYE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.