The politics of global value chains: import-dependent firms and EU–Asia trade agreements
研究了2006年欧盟转向双边贸易战略的原因，提出进口依赖型企业因融入全球价值链而推动欧盟与亚洲国家签署贸易协定，并通过游说影响欧盟与韩国、印度、越南的谈判决策。
In 2006, the European Commission released its Global Europe Communication, in which it announced a shift from a multilateral to a bilateral trade strategy. One of the key pillars of this new strategy was to strengthen the bilateral trade relations with key Asian countries. In contrast to existing analyses that focus on European Union (EU) decision makers' agency, we propose an explanation for this notable shift in the EU's trade policy that stresses the political role of import-dependent firms. In light of the increasing integration of such firms into global value chains, the article argues that a plausible case can be made, both theoretically and empirically, that import-dependent firms had a clear stake in the signing of preferential trade agreements between the EU and Asian countries and that their lobbying efforts significantly affected the EU's decision to start negotiations with South Korea, India and Vietnam.