Fragmentation and the Value-Added Structure of Exports in Polish Industry

• Autorzy: Krzysztof Posłuszny
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The accession to the European Union contributed to an increase in Poland's foreign trade, and the growing export market is coupled with an increasing importance of intermediate imports, which is necessary to produce goods of appropriate quality and price. This phenomenon is a part of the process of fragmentation in global value chains. Fragmentation of the value chains should manifest themselves, in particular, in a multi-phase manufacturing process that requires many components of different types. In this paper, the recently available OECD database of the Trade in Value Added (TiVA) has been used to assess changes in the composition of gross exports of Poland and other Central Europe countries. In Poland, practically all sectors show a growing share of the imported value added. The cases analyzed confirm the thesis that the high technology sectors foster fragmentation. In the case of technologically lessadvanced sectors and short-value chains, benefits of fragmentation are limited. The progressing fragmentation and, as a consequence, a growing share of the imported value added made the gross export value (which is commonly used in statistics) of little use for the analysis of the economic role and competitive position of sectors. However, thanks to new projects based on I-O matrices of the global economy, it is possible to decompose gross exports into respective domestic and foreign value-added streams. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Industry; Export; Value added; International trade; Globalization; Production fragmentation

PL

Przemysł; Eksport; Wartość dodana; Handel międzynarodowy; Globalizacja; Fragmentacja produkcji

• Czasopismo: Managerial Economics
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: 16
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 149--159

Twórcy

autor

Krzysztof Posłuszny

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.7494/manage.2015.16.2.149