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Digital transformation – enabling factory economy actors’ entrepreneurial integration in global value chains?

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Drawing on interviews with ten Hungarian digital automotive technology providers, this paper investigates how digital transformation can assist factory economy digital entrepreneurs in their integration in the highly concentrated automotive global value chains (GVCs). We identified four mechanisms by which digital transformation can, in principle, produce opportunities for factory economies in progressing towards economy actors’ entrepreneurial integration in automotive GVCs, as follows. (1) New entrepreneurial opportunities in the digital realm; (2) Fine-slicing innovation and globalisation of R&D; (3) Ecosystem-type innovation collaboration; (4) Interaction-intensity of custom-tailored digital services provision. However, to realise the potential of these opportunities, a critical mass of capable digital entrepreneurs needs to be achieved: a long way to go for factory economies.

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  • Andrea Szalavetz, 2020. "Digital transformation – enabling factory economy actors’ entrepreneurial integration in global value chains?," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(6), pages 771-792, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pocoec:v:32:y:2020:i:6:p:771-792
    DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2020.1722588
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