Qiwen Lu
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198295372
- eISBN:
- 9780191685101
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295372.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business, Innovation
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of how four innovative Chinese electronics enterprises — the Stone Group, the Legend Computer Group, the Founder Group, and the China Great Wall ...
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This book provides the first in-depth analysis of how four innovative Chinese electronics enterprises — the Stone Group, the Legend Computer Group, the Founder Group, and the China Great Wall Computer Group — transformed the Chinese computer industry over the past decade. It explains how indigenous Chinese business enterprises that developed during the era of economic reform gained the high-technology capabilities and modern marketing know-how to compete domestically and internationally with powerful foreign multinationals. Through case studies based on first-hand access to company records and personnel, this book reveals how, building on technological capabilities accumulated during the central planning era, the institutional transformations of the economic reform era unleashed a unique pattern of organizational learning and innovative enterprise. This book also draws out the implications of the developmental experience of the Chinese computer electronics sector for understanding the institutional and organisational foundations for a successful transition from a centrally planned economy toward a market-oriented one.Less
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of how four innovative Chinese electronics enterprises — the Stone Group, the Legend Computer Group, the Founder Group, and the China Great Wall Computer Group — transformed the Chinese computer industry over the past decade. It explains how indigenous Chinese business enterprises that developed during the era of economic reform gained the high-technology capabilities and modern marketing know-how to compete domestically and internationally with powerful foreign multinationals. Through case studies based on first-hand access to company records and personnel, this book reveals how, building on technological capabilities accumulated during the central planning era, the institutional transformations of the economic reform era unleashed a unique pattern of organizational learning and innovative enterprise. This book also draws out the implications of the developmental experience of the Chinese computer electronics sector for understanding the institutional and organisational foundations for a successful transition from a centrally planned economy toward a market-oriented one.
Qiwen Lu
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198295372
- eISBN:
- 9780191685101
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295372.003.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business, Innovation
This chapter analyses the growth of the Chinese computer market and how Chinese companies are able to catch up in a high-tech industrial sector such as computers. It provides an overview of the case ...
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This chapter analyses the growth of the Chinese computer market and how Chinese companies are able to catch up in a high-tech industrial sector such as computers. It provides an overview of the case studies of four leading Chinese computer enterprises: Stone Group, Legend Computer Group, Founder Group, and China Great Wall Computer Group and how these enterprises acquired the technological competencies that enabled them to compete with foreign multinational companies. The rise of these indigenous Chinese computer companies was the result of a long-term process of capability building or technological training, which could be traced back to government initiatives reforming China's science and technology system in the early 1980s. This chapter proposes that Chinese computer enterprises followed a unique model of technology learning coupled with unique organizational and institutional arrangements. A combination of indigenous technology capabilities and specific conditions of local demand created the technology-push and the demand-pull for indigenous product innovations, hence leading to the possibility of the unique top-down mode of technology learning.Less
This chapter analyses the growth of the Chinese computer market and how Chinese companies are able to catch up in a high-tech industrial sector such as computers. It provides an overview of the case studies of four leading Chinese computer enterprises: Stone Group, Legend Computer Group, Founder Group, and China Great Wall Computer Group and how these enterprises acquired the technological competencies that enabled them to compete with foreign multinational companies. The rise of these indigenous Chinese computer companies was the result of a long-term process of capability building or technological training, which could be traced back to government initiatives reforming China's science and technology system in the early 1980s. This chapter proposes that Chinese computer enterprises followed a unique model of technology learning coupled with unique organizational and institutional arrangements. A combination of indigenous technology capabilities and specific conditions of local demand created the technology-push and the demand-pull for indigenous product innovations, hence leading to the possibility of the unique top-down mode of technology learning.
