This week’s topics
Global industries
- Cars, fashion and phones
- Where the parts come from
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Identify examples of globalised industries.
Activity
Map the journey of a smartphone’s parts.
Study materials
Further resources
- Principles of Marketing, ch. 17.5–17.6: The supply chain and logistics · PDF · OpenStax (2023), where parts come from; pp. 591–596 · for registered students
- Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 10.3: Location – where do we make it? · PDF · OpenStax (2026); pp. 334–336 · for registered students
- Key figures on Europe – 2025 edition, International trade · PDF · Eurostat (2025), what the EU imports and exports; pp. 46–49 · for registered students
- World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of GVCs (Overview) · Open-access article · World Bank (2020), World Development Report. Where the parts of cars, clothes and phones are made: global value chains explained. · for registered students
- Supply-Chain Trade: A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses · Open-access article · Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez (2015), The World Economy. How factories in different countries each make part of one product. · for registered students
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