Chinese Management Studies: Volume 4 Issue 4

Huawei's leadership role in IMS standards development and in its own proprietary Softswitch

William Abbott Foster, Russell C. Reinsch

The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of Huawei's leadership role in the Internet Protocol Multi‐media Subsystem (IMS) international standards effort while it…

Moving upward in global value chains: the innovations of mobile phone developers in China

Sunny Li Sun, Hao Chen, Erin G. Pleggenkuhle‐Miles

The purpose of this paper is to integrate the global value chain (GVC) perspective with firms' innovation in emerging economies (EEs) and explain why EE firms can improve their…

Industrial influences on R&D transfer to China

Peder Veng Søberg

The purpose of this paper is to open a new research frontier concerning industry factors influencing R&D transfer to emerging markets within Western multinational companies (MNCs)…

Regional specialization in China's biopharmaceutical industry

Marcus Conlé, Markus Taube

The purpose of this paper is to explore patterns as well as determinants of regional specialisation in China's biopharmaceutical industry. It identifies and characterizes…

Cluster network and innovation under transitional economies: An empirical study of the Shaxi garment cluster

Zheng He, Lez Rayman‐Bacchus

Firms in the same industry often display a striking propensity to agglomerate. These geographic concentrations significantly affect innovative behavior of individual firms and…

A comparative innovation study of China, Japan and Taiwan

William H.A. Johnson, Michael Chuang

The purpose of this paper is to compare the two (arguably) most successful innovation‐based Asian economies with Mainland China (later referred to simply as China) in order to…

Transfer of Shenzhen's hi‐tech industries: an empirical study

Dong Wang, Huiqi Pei

The purpose of this paper is to examine the transfer of Shenzhen's hi‐tech industries, with particular emphasis on its motives, characteristics and influence on Shenzhen's economy…

Is China verging on a new transformation?

Check Teck Foo

Guest editorial

Robert Tiong