Kaidong Feng
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198753568
- eISBN:
- 9780191815096
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753568.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation, International Business
This chapter aims to explore the progress of indigenous innovation in Chinese car industry. The technological capability of Chinese local car-makers developed remarkably slowly in the 1980s–1990s, ...
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This chapter aims to explore the progress of indigenous innovation in Chinese car industry. The technological capability of Chinese local car-makers developed remarkably slowly in the 1980s–1990s, until the situation was changed by the entry of a group of newcomers. This chapter argues it was exactly the national strategy of “trading market for technology”, associated with the governmental intervention and manipulation of FDIs, that shaped a learning pattern previously in local leading firms that depressed creative attempts at learning. The newcomers stressed the organizational mobilization for learning, and acted as integrators of global technologies from their early stage on. The different strategy and learning patterns led to the significant difference of capability among these firms, particularly in term of capability in generating new products and technologies. The entries of newcomers have changed both the structure and the benchmarks of learning organizing in the Chinese car industry.Less
This chapter aims to explore the progress of indigenous innovation in Chinese car industry. The technological capability of Chinese local car-makers developed remarkably slowly in the 1980s–1990s, until the situation was changed by the entry of a group of newcomers. This chapter argues it was exactly the national strategy of “trading market for technology”, associated with the governmental intervention and manipulation of FDIs, that shaped a learning pattern previously in local leading firms that depressed creative attempts at learning. The newcomers stressed the organizational mobilization for learning, and acted as integrators of global technologies from their early stage on. The different strategy and learning patterns led to the significant difference of capability among these firms, particularly in term of capability in generating new products and technologies. The entries of newcomers have changed both the structure and the benchmarks of learning organizing in the Chinese car industry.
Michael Jones-Correa
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199311316
- eISBN:
- 9780199344918
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199311316.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
This chapter demonstrates other pathways to immigrant political incorporation and how every alternative entails trade-offs and sunk costs that constrain further strategic decisions. It begins by ...
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This chapter demonstrates other pathways to immigrant political incorporation and how every alternative entails trade-offs and sunk costs that constrain further strategic decisions. It begins by sketching out a working definition of the “political.” It then lays out an array of incorporative pathways, ranging from electoral politics to organizational mobilization and bureaucratic incorporation. Not all of these pathways are necessarily legal or even savory. Timing and sequencing of immigrant actors' arrival to a receiving context matter, with later arrivals constrained by the actions and choices of earlier arrivals.Less
This chapter demonstrates other pathways to immigrant political incorporation and how every alternative entails trade-offs and sunk costs that constrain further strategic decisions. It begins by sketching out a working definition of the “political.” It then lays out an array of incorporative pathways, ranging from electoral politics to organizational mobilization and bureaucratic incorporation. Not all of these pathways are necessarily legal or even savory. Timing and sequencing of immigrant actors' arrival to a receiving context matter, with later arrivals constrained by the actions and choices of earlier arrivals.
