Value Chain Analysis of Iran Steel Industry: Combining economic analysis of value chain and material flow analysis

A rigorous and extensive application of the value chain management (VCM) has become the vogue in modern day business practices and processes. However, due to the complex and multidimensional nature of value chains, achieving efficient and effective value chain management in real value chains remains a major conundrum for practitioners. Many unknown barriers continue to impede effective and efficient value chain management in developing countries’ industrial value chains. The purpose of this study was to find out the common barriers to effective value chain management in a developing country’s industrial value chains using evidence from the cotton industry in Zimbabwe. The analysis was based on survey data sets obtained from 157 purposively sampled experts from the cotton industry value chain in Zimbabwe. Exploratory factor analysis was used to find the barriers to effective value chain management. The results revealed both architectural and governance barriers to effective value chain management. The findings also presented major policy implications for industrial value chains in the developing countries and also indicated areas for further robust research founded on a broader data set from other developing countries’ industrial chains as a way of validating the findings of this study.

Combining economic and environmental dimensions: Value chain analysis of UK iron and steel flows

Based on material flow analysis: Value chain analysis of China iron resources

The study characterizes resilience of value chains in the Russian coal industry and is the first step toward modeling feasible value chain adaptation under the pressure of sanctions and other challenges. The authorial approach to the analysis of coal value chains includes identification of basic types of value chains in the coal industry, assessment of their current resilience and modeling feasible upgrading directions to enhance the long-term resilience of the value chains. The proposed approach to modeling flexible coal value chains sticks follows a certain algorithm, namely: review of typical value chains in the coal industry; assessment of their current resilience and development trends; finding of feasible directions of upgrading the value chains on the ground of enhanced flexibility and robustness and using clean coal technologies; description of new effective value chains in the coal industry using advanced clean technologies. The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 22–28-01803, https://rscf.ru/project/22-28-01803/, and used equipment of the Shared Use Center at the Kemerovo State University under the state contract with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Contract No. 075-15-2021-694 dated 5 August 2021, ID RF-2296.61321X0032.

Implementing the Results of Material Flow Analysis

Value chain and sustainability analysis of fresh-cut vegetable: A case study at SSS Co.

Summaries Gender is often overlooked in the analysis of global value chains. Analysis of value chains incorporates all aspects from design, through production to final distribution and consumption. These activities are embedded within prevailing gender relations that affect value chains at every node. Conversely the operation of value chains can affect the prevailing gender division of labour in different localities. This article provides an initial contribution to an analysis of gender and value chains, drawing on the example of the horticultural value chain linking South Africa and Chile to European retail. It explores how flexible female employment at one end of the chain provides supply flexibility in the global chain. At the other end, supermarkets exploit changing working and consumption. patterns to sell high value?added food, previously prepared in the home. Examining the gender dimension provides a much more comprehensive analysis of value chains, through which all aspects of their functioning can be better understood.

Identifying the social hotspots of German steelmaking and its value chain

Combining economic and environmental dimensions: Value chain analysis of UK aluminium flows

Aim: To identify the main chain actors involved in value chain of cotton and asses their linkage, roles and responsibilities in the value chain and to map the complete value chain of cotton from producers to consumers.
 Methodology: Descriptive statistics mainly value chain analysis is used to map the generic value chain of cotton. The required primary data about the movement of cotton along the length of the value chain were collected from different stake holders involved in the value chain through pretested questionnaires by employing personal interview method.
 Results: It was found that value chain of cotton includes many stakeholders like input suppliers, producers, intermediaries, processors like ginners, spinners, weavers, dyers and printers and garment manufactures, playing their respective role in the value chain.
 Conclusion: Cotton crop undergoes multistage processing at the industrial level and it has very complex value chain involving multiple stake holders. Cotton has enormous potential as a source of raw materials for the textile industry. However, the low productivity, which is primarily the result of suboptimal farming practices, limits the total expansion of the cotton business. There is a need to set up a common platform which engage all stakeholders from farmer to consumers and strengthen the linkage between them so as to trade without the mediation of the brokers or commission agents.

In the article, the key stage of the value chain in the zinc industry of the Russian Federation is considered. The study aims to examine the impact of technological change on the development of value chains in the mining and metallurgical complex in the Urals region. The relevance of the assessment of the impact of technological change on the development of value chains in the processing of primary and technogenic raw materials in terms of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Complex is grounded. The methodological scheme of analysis of value chains and the impact on them of new technologies are developed in the study. It is shown that the analysis of value chains should be carried out, using as an analytical tool value added as well as a heuristic tool study of the value chain. Analysis of the value chain in the production of primary zinc and technogenic raw materials made in accordance with the proposed approach. An assessment of the value added in the production of zinc from primary raw materials held in the article. The gross volume and dynamics of revenue, net income and the cost of segments of the value chain in zinc production are analyzed. The leading role of the metallurgical segment in the value chain of the zinc industry is established. Share indexes of the metallurgical segment as a control link of the value chain in the structure of the consolidated revenue, profit, cost considered in the dynamics, the dynamics of change in the total expenditure on scientific and technological development and R & D expenditure are investigated. The conclusion about essential influence of new technologies on the change of value chains in terms of zinc production is confirmed.

Combining established methods for value chain and power analyses: Towards a comprehensive next-generation understanding of value chain governance

Value chain analysis of the natural gas industry: Lessons from the US regulatory success and opportunities for Europe

Methods. The results are obtained through the use of the following methods: logicalanalytical method and generalization – in the analysis of behavioral characteristics and ensuring consistency in industrial value chains; standard methods of qualitative and quantitative marketing research – in the diagnosis of factors influencing the formation of sustainable relationships of industrial enterprises with partners in value chains. Results. It has been established that in the context of the globalization of the market and the general orientation of the Ukrainian economy towards the European principles of development, it becomes important for mining engineering enterprises to prove their adherence to the requirements of energy efficiency, energy saving, energy security and social energy responsibility. Value chains should not only improve energy efficiency, economic and production stability of the enterprise, but also contribute to strengthening the sustainable development of all participants in the production chain, as well as other stakeholders (business partners, buyers, investors, local communities, etc.). Novelty. The behavioral features of mining machine-building enterprises in the context of formation of stable supply chains in the mining sector of the national economy are specified. The relationship between the energy efficiency indicator in the development of sustainable value chains in the extractive industry has been established. Practical value. The use of sustainable development principles in the formation of value chains will increase the energy efficiency of the industry, provide a competitive advantage for entering global production chains in the context of Ukraine's European integration.

Methods. The results are obtained through the use of the following methods: logicalanalytical method and generalization – in the analysis of behavioral characteristics and ensuring consistency in industrial value chains; standard methods of qualitative and quantitative marketing research – in the diagnosis of factors influencing the formation of sustainable relationships of industrial enterprises with partners in value chains. Results. It has been established that in the context of the globalization of the market and the general orientation of the Ukrainian economy towards the European principles of development, it becomes important for mining engineering enterprises to prove their adherence to the requirements of energy efficiency, energy saving, energy security and social energy responsibility. Value chains should not only improve energy efficiency, economic and production stability of the enterprise, but also contribute to strengthening the sustainable development of all participants in the production chain, as well as other stakeholders (business partners, buyers, investors, local communities, etc.). Novelty. The behavioral features of mining machine-building enterprises in the context of formation of stable supply chains in the mining sector of the national economy are specified. The relationship between the energy efficiency indicator in the development of sustainable value chains in the extractive industry has been established. Practical value. The use of sustainable development principles in the formation of value chains will increase the energy efficiency of the industry, provide a competitive advantage for entering global production chains in the context of Ukraine's European integration.