Producer-driven production network

A production network linking industries that are generally dominated by large companies, who can readily influence the structure of the network.

Producer-driven production networks are characteristic of those industries in which transnational corporations (TNCs) or other large integrated enterprises play the central role in controlling the production system. This is most characteristic of capital- and technology-intensive industries like automobiles, computers, aircraft, and electrical machinery… What distinguishes "producer-driven" production systems is the control exercised by the administrative headquarters of the TNCs.