A concept of distributional control system targeting relational rent links of global value chains

For many firms, embedding global value chain is a requirement to gain continual competitiveness. Different links of GVC may produce different rents. Relational rent created by actors´ collaboration of a link is an important resource of super profits. Relational rent distribution determines the cooperative performance. A distributional control system can assistant participants evaluate cooperative intents, make fair distributional decision. Digging requirement of this given domain, designing concept of distributional system and paying attention to intercultural and inter-organizational apply can help firms embedding GVC improve the ability of gain relational rent and continual competitiveness.