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slovenian

2015

volume 49, issue 1

International trade    Production process    Slovenia 

Urad RS za makroekonomske analize in razvoj
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The dynamics of the world economy and international trade are increasingly characterised by global value chains (GVCs), within which intermediate goods and services are traded in fragmented and internationally dispersed production processes. The data show that the integration of Slovenian enterprises into GVCs is gradually increasing. In the future, the effectiveness of Slovenian integration into international trade will increasingly depend on the intensity and quality of integration into GVCs. In doing so, it is extremely important that enterprises use their integration into GVCs for their own growth and development, to assure the best possible, stable position in GVCs and upgrading of that position. We analyse the position of Slovenian enterprises in GVCs and related trends by means of a supply chain matrix (Boc and Lanz, 2013). The matrix shows the following characteristics of Slovenian enterprises integration into GVCs: (i) the ICT industry has regressed in all dimensions of integration into GVCs, (ii) in recent years, manufacturing of final products in high-tech industries has gained modest comparative advantages without a clear pattern of integration into GVCs, (iii) medium high-tech industries are increasing their integration into final and intermediate phases of GVCs, (iv) medium low-tech industries are increasing their integration into intermediate phases of GVCs, (v) low-tech industries have lost their comparative advantages in the final phases and somehow retain their position in intermediate phases of GVCs.

22.09.2015