Decoding the Rise of Made-In-China: Why the Continuity of Catch-Up Ladder Ultimately Matters - Couverture rigide

Guo, Bin

 
9789811265211: Decoding the Rise of Made-In-China: Why the Continuity of Catch-Up Ladder Ultimately Matters

Synopsis

This book provides a novel theoretical framework to explain the real source of competitive advantage of Chinese manufacturing. More importantly, such a framework can be generalized to analyze the potential of catch-up for large emerging economies in the globalization era. The book also provides insights for policy makers to rethink their design of policies.

The rise of Made-in-China products has been widely attributed to low labour cost advantage and imitation advantage. However, as these two advantages are nearly innate to all late-developing countries, they cannot be regarded as the key factors that drive the rapid growth of China's manufacturing industry, or China's economy, over the past few decades. In this book, the author proposed a theory ― "the catch-up ladders theory", to explain the rise of China's manufacturing industry. The manufacturing advancement of any country is in essence a process of catching-up in both market and technology, during which enterprises will form a ladder-like holistic structure due to their differences in capabilities, technology and market positioning. In light of this, the continuity of the catch-up ladder will greatly determine the catch-up efficiency of an industry and even a country at large. Such a perspective is more applicable to large emerging economies, especially those with over one hundred million population and thus huge potential domestic market demand.

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À propos de l?auteur

Bin Guo is a Professor of Innovation Management & Strategy at the School of Management, Zhejiang University. He is also the head of the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy. He received his PhD in Management from Zhejiang University (1998), China.

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