Structured Uncertainty and Tacit Alliance:A Case Study on China”s Innovation Patterns in Mobile Phone Handset Industry
This paper explains why some Chinese high-tech private firms survive and thrive within a system which appears to be arrayed against them.We use the mobile phone handset industry as an illustrative case.We argue that capitalizing on the advantages offered by the global fragmentation of production,Chinese non-state firms chose a pattern of copy-innovation in their search for competitive advantage as a rational response to a system characterized with high structured uncertainty.The research also suggests that China”s practice of utilizing imitation and innovation in the mobile manufacturing industry can be partly explained by a silent alliance between firms and local government.This special type of local support ameliorates structured uncertainty and encourages specific types of innovation.Policy implications and future directions are discussed in the end.
structured uncertainty high technology fragmentation of global production innovation theories emerging economies
Li Tang Michael Murphree Dan Breznitz
School of Public Economics and Administration,Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,Shanghai Sam Nunn School of International Affairs,Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta,US 30332 Scheller College of Business,Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta,US 30332
国内会议
北京
英文
267-289
2013-06-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）