Research on the Impact of High Tech Product Export Trade Network Construction on a Country or Region’s Position in the Global Value Chain——From the Perspective of Social Network Analysis

Abstract

Abstract: The trade network of high-tech products is an important embodiment of a country or region’s participation in the division of global value chain. This paper uses the social network analysis method to analyze the characteristics of a country’s high-tech product trade network and the overall pattern of the global high-tech trade network. Based on the statistics of bilateral trade of high-tech products for 50 economies around the world from 2005 to 2016, this paper empirically tests the impact of the characteristics of a country or region’s high-tech product trade network on its position and indispensability in the global value chain, and discusses the interactive effect between the export and import trade networks of high-tech products and its impact on the hierarchy of global value chain. The results show that: (1) To some extent the global trade network structure of high-tech products has changed gradually since 2005; (2) The network centrality and connection strength of a country or region’s export trade of high-tech products are positively related to global value chain division position, while the network heterogeneity is negatively related to it. This shows that the construction of global export trade network of high-tech products can improve a country or region’s position and indispensability in the global value chain; (3) The high-tech products import and export trade network have significant interactive effect, which helps to improve a country or region’s position and indispensability in the global value chain.

Key words: high-tech product export trade network, work division in the global value chain, social network analysis, interactive effect

Zhong Zuchang, Yu Peixuan, Xiao Xiao, Meng Fanchao, Huang Qiuyu. Research on the Impact of High Tech Product Export Trade Network Construction on a Country or Region’s Position in the Global Value Chain——From the Perspective of Social Network Analysis[J]. Management Review, 2022, 34(3): 127-140.

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