The Strategic Role Evolution of the Foreign Automotive Suppliers in China: Capabilities Evolutionary Perspective
In this article, a strategic role evolution of foreign automotive part suppliers in China is explored in regard to capabilities evolution of subsidiaries. By refining the original framework of strategic role designed by Ferdows (1997), this study suggests modified framework to describe the strategic role of foreign automotive parts suppliers in emerging market by creating new strategic reason for entry and two corresponding roles. We also develop comprehensive criteria to evaluate the level of functional capability in the field of operations, purchasing, marketing, and R&D activities. Based on those capabilities criteria, we conduct within-case analysis on capabilities evolution of five subsidiaries from early stage to present stage. Then we analyze the evolutionary process of strategic role and its dynamic mechanism in between-case analysis on the basis of the result of within-case analysis and modified Ferdows’ framework.
Automotive parts supplier subsidiary development strategic role evolution functional capabilities China
Kyung-Tae Kim
School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
国际会议
The Third International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management(第三届运营与供应链管理国际会议)
武汉
英文
537-551
2009-07-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）