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GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain (2025)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Anzolin, G. (online). GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain. Innovation and Development, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930x.2025.2468060

The paper contributes to the fast-growing literature on the structural dynamics of digitalization with a focus on robotization, and its heterogeneous diffusion and impact along and within global value chains. Specifically, building on an innovative g... Read More about GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain.

Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China (2024)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., Frattini, F., & Prodi, G. (online). Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China. Competition and Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294241261878

Robots are a key digital production technology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In 2020, China accounted for one third of all industrial robots in operation globally. The emerging literature has mainly focused on the effects of robotization, whil... Read More about Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China.

How to overcome rent seeking in Tanzania’s skills sector? Exploring feasible reforms through discrete choice experiments (2024)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., Sophie, V. H., Lucas, K., & Cornel, J. (2024). How to overcome rent seeking in Tanzania’s skills sector? Exploring feasible reforms through discrete choice experiments. World Development, 182, Article 106705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106705

Skills gaps and mismatches are widely documented as a hindrance to inclusive structural transformation across developing countries, especially in Africa. What is often overlooked, however, is the fact that skills development is a complex political ec... Read More about How to overcome rent seeking in Tanzania’s skills sector? Exploring feasible reforms through discrete choice experiments.

Upgrading and multi-scalar industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sector value chain (2024)
Book Chapter
Boys, J., & Andreoni, A. (2024). Upgrading and multi-scalar industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sector value chain. In O. Morrisey, J. Semboja, & M. Were (Eds.), Sustaining Tanzania’s Economic Development: A Firm and Household Perspective (37-60). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192885746.003.0003

Policy makers are increasingly turning from global value chains to regional and national value chains as drivers of structural transformation in the global South. This chapter examines economic and social upgrading in the Tanzanian textile and appare... Read More about Upgrading and multi-scalar industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sector value chain.

Unveiling Structure and Dynamics of Global Digital Production Technology Networks: A new digital technology classification and network analysis based on trade data (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Andreoni, A., Anzolin, G., Labrunie, M., & Spinola, D. Unveiling Structure and Dynamics of Global Digital Production Technology Networks: A new digital technology classification and network analysis based on trade data. London

This research pioneers the construction of a novel Digital Production Technology Classification (DPTC) based on the latest Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (HS2017) of the World Customs Organisation. The DPTC enables the identificat... Read More about Unveiling Structure and Dynamics of Global Digital Production Technology Networks: A new digital technology classification and network analysis based on trade data.

How can we elicit health workers’ preferences for measures to reduce informal payments? A mixed methods approach to developing a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania (2023)
Journal Article
Binyaruka, P., Angell, B., McKee, M., Andreoni, A., Mamdani, M., Hutchinson, E., & Balabanova, D. (2023). How can we elicit health workers’ preferences for measures to reduce informal payments? A mixed methods approach to developing a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania. BMJ Open, 13(7), Article e068781. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068781

Objective: While discrete choice experiments (DCEs) have been used in other fields as a means of eliciting respondent preferences, these remain relatively new in studying corrupt practices in the health sector. This study documents and discusses the... Read More about How can we elicit health workers’ preferences for measures to reduce informal payments? A mixed methods approach to developing a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania.

Upgrading through global, regional or national value chains? Firm-level evidence from the East African textiles and apparel sector (2023)
Journal Article
Boys, J., & Andreoni, A. (2023). Upgrading through global, regional or national value chains? Firm-level evidence from the East African textiles and apparel sector. Geoforum, 144, Article 103809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103809

This paper introduces the concept of value chain directionality to investigate how orientation to different value chains has implications for productive learning and industrial outcomes. We develop and test this concept building on a purposefully des... Read More about Upgrading through global, regional or national value chains? Firm-level evidence from the East African textiles and apparel sector.

Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector (2023)
Journal Article
Boys, J., & Andreoni, A. (2023). Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector. Third World Quarterly, 44(8), 1680-1698. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2211009

We introduce a multidimensional and multilevel framework for industrial policy space as the set of legally permitted, economically viable and politico-institutionally feasible policy options for industrial development, given constraints at the nation... Read More about Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector.

Robotising, but how? Evidence from the automotive sector in South Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Anzolin, G., & Andreoni, A. (2023). Robotising, but how? Evidence from the automotive sector in South Africa. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 34(5), 820-837. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMTM-06-2022-0242

Purpose: This paper focuses on understanding firm-level determinants of industrial robots' adoption and how these determinants result in heterogenous processes of robotisation across firms within the same sector. The paper presents results from in-de... Read More about Robotising, but how? Evidence from the automotive sector in South Africa.

States of Innovation: How the state shapes production transformation (2023)
Book Chapter
Andreoni, A., & Kattel, R. (2023). States of Innovation: How the state shapes production transformation. In P. Bianchi, S. Labory, & P. Tomlinson (Eds.), Handbook of Industrial Development (382-402). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379091.00033

Historically, state formation and industrialisation have been linked by a mutually constitutive relationship. Industrialisation has been shaped by the state (or lack thereof) via industrial and innovation policy. The formation of state institutions,... Read More about States of Innovation: How the state shapes production transformation.

Rising to the challenge or perish? Chinese import penetration and its impact on growth dynamics of manufacturing firms in South Africa (2023)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Torreggiani, S. (2023). Rising to the challenge or perish? Chinese import penetration and its impact on growth dynamics of manufacturing firms in South Africa. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 64(March), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.12.010

Using firm-level tax administrative data from 2010 to 2017, we study the extent to which Chinese import penetration has affected the growth performances of manufacturing firms registered in South Africa. By instrumenting Chinese imports to South Afri... Read More about Rising to the challenge or perish? Chinese import penetration and its impact on growth dynamics of manufacturing firms in South Africa.

Financialisation of Non-Financial Corporations in South Africa: An integrated framework to study variations across sectors, value chains and firms (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Andreoni, A., van Huellen, S., & Robb, N. Financialisation of Non-Financial Corporations in South Africa: An integrated framework to study variations across sectors, value chains and firms. London

Financialisation shapes the ways in which middle-income countries and their nonfinancial corporations integrate into global supply chains and the global financial system. This integration in turn shapes the ways in which these corporations engage wit... Read More about Financialisation of Non-Financial Corporations in South Africa: An integrated framework to study variations across sectors, value chains and firms.

State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing (2023)
Thesis
Heinen, S. State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Less than thirty years after civil war and genocide, the government of post-conflict Rwanda has achieved a remarkable level of state-building and economic growth. This thesis uses a political settlements framework to make sense of the country’s recen... Read More about State-led Economic Transformation in Rwanda 2000-2019: An Evaluation of the Role of Policy in Coffee-processing, Tourism, Food Crops, and Manufacturing.

From Financialisation to Innovation in UK Big Pharma: AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline (2022)
Book
Tulum, O., Andreoni, A., & Lazonick, W. (2022). From Financialisation to Innovation in UK Big Pharma: AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009278140

The tension between innovation and financialisation is central to the business corporation. Innovation entails a 'retain-and-reinvest' allocation regime that can form a foundation for stable and equitable economic growth. Driven by shareholder-value... Read More about From Financialisation to Innovation in UK Big Pharma: AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline.

Re-aligning Incentives to Address Informal Payments in Tanzania Public Health Facilities: A Discrete Choice Experiment (2022)
Journal Article
Binyaruka, P., Andreoni, A., Balabanova, D., McKee, M., Hutchinson, E., & Angell, B. (2023). Re-aligning Incentives to Address Informal Payments in Tanzania Public Health Facilities: A Discrete Choice Experiment. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6877

Background: Informal payments for healthcare are typically regressive and limit access to quality healthcare while increasing risk of catastrophic health expenditure, especially in developing countries. Different responses have been proposed, but lit... Read More about Re-aligning Incentives to Address Informal Payments in Tanzania Public Health Facilities: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

Governing digital platform power for industrial development: towards an entrepreneurial-regulatory state (2022)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Roberts, S. (2022). Governing digital platform power for industrial development: towards an entrepreneurial-regulatory state. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 46(6), 1431-1454. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beac055

Data and digital platforms have simultaneously upended entrenched positions in some industries, opening-up greater and disruptive competition, while driving overall higher levels of concentration through the growing power of multi-sided digital platf... Read More about Governing digital platform power for industrial development: towards an entrepreneurial-regulatory state.

How can South Africa advance a new energy paradigm? A mission-oriented approach to megaprojects (2022)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., Creamer, K., Mazzucato, M., & Steyn, G. (2022). How can South Africa advance a new energy paradigm? A mission-oriented approach to megaprojects. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 38(2), 237-259. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac007

Green transition is a ‘wicked’ problem in that it is complex, systemic, interconnected, and urgent. In this paper we advance a ‘mission-oriented’ approach to reconceptualize energy megaprojects within a systemic, cross-sectoral, and challenge-driven... Read More about How can South Africa advance a new energy paradigm? A mission-oriented approach to megaprojects.