Distributed production and national economic strategies

The article deals with organizational complexity of production process in the era of digitalization and interactive innovation. It becomes fragmented into specialized tasks, which are geographically dispersed across the nodes of global value chains (GVCs). GVCs are a phenomenon where countries’ intermediary exports are utilized by other countries for further processing and re-export to third countries. We describe GVCs as dispersed business networks that are organized and coordinated by global firms as a common project of independent suppliers, which has its certain time frame and sequence of actions. We provide data on proliferation of GVCs across world regions, while examining the extent and quality of a country’s participation in GVCs, including RussiaWe highlight the importance of building up economic openness, increasing export value through broad liberalization of imports, and leveraging compet.