1 Linking Global Value Chains and Supply Chain Management: Evidence from the Electric Motors Industry Ruggero Golini* 1 Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, Via Pasubio 7, 24044 Dalmine (BG) Italy Federico Caniato 2 Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy Matteo Kalchschmidt 3 Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, Via Pasubio 7, 24044 Dalmine (BG) Italy To cite this article: Ruggero Golini, Federico Caniato & Matteo Kalchschmidt (2016): Linking global value chains and supply chain management: evidence from the electric motors industry, Production Planning & Control, DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2016.1170225 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2016.1170225 Acknowledgements: Preliminary parts of this research (analysis of the electric motor industry and the value chain) were performed at the Center on Globalization Governance and Competitiveness (Duke University) by Marcy Lowe, Ruggero Golini, Gary Gereffi. The results of that study are published in the online report: Lowe, M, Golini, R, Gereffi, G. 2010. US Adoption of High-Efficiency Motors and Drives: Lessons Learned. Some of the results of that study are mentioned in this paper and appropriately referenced. The remainder of this paper is entirely original. The authors would like to thank Giulio Buciuni for the precious and insightful feedback provided on the manuscript. 1 email: ruggero.golini@unibg.it CORRESPONDING AUTHOR 2 email: federico.caniato@polimi.it 3 email: matteo.kalchschmidt@unibg.it