Learning and Innovation of Chinese Firms

lt;p>Jacky Hong

Jacky Hong is a Professor of Management at the University of Macau. He received his PhD from Lancaster University. His research interests fall into the areas of organizational learning, knowledge management in multinational firms and management of Chinese enterprises. He has recently written and edited books on the subjects: Organizational Learning in Asia: Issues and Challenges (Elsevier) and Cross-cultural Knowledge Management (Routledge).

Shenxue Li

Shenxue Li is a senior lecturer in strategy at the University of Kent, UK. Her research focuses on knowledge management, organizational learning, dynamic capabilities, core competence development, and cultural and institutional distance. Her empirical research examines the nature, mechanisms, processes, and internal and external conditions of learning, knowledge management, and capability development of Western MNCs operating in China. Her work appears in both academic and practitioner oriented journals.

Part I: Introduction and Background

Chapter 1

Introduction

The chapter presents a current overview of the innovation of Chinese firms and outlines the contributions in this edited volume.

Jacky Hong and Shenxue Li

Part II: Technology transfer and innovation

This part explores the link between foreign technology transfer and indigenous innovation in China. For example, how do Chinese firms collaborate with foreign partners to promote technology transfer and innovation? What are the difficulties and obstacles affecting the technological collaboration between Chinese firms and foreign partners?

Chapter 2

Foreign direct investments and innovation in China

This chapter explores the impact of foreign direct investment on technological innovation in China

• Current status of foreign direct investment in China
• Technological innovation in Chinese firms
• The roles of foreign direct investment on fostering technological innovation

Pervez Ghauri

Chapter 3

Knowledge transfer in international joint ventures

This chapter investigates how international joint venture can serve as a major channel for promoting knowledge transfer to China

• Types of knowledge
• Barrier of knowledge transfer in international joint venture
• Case studies

Eric W.K. Tsang

Part III: Entrepreneurship, learning and innovation

This part identifies the characteristics of technological entrepreneurs in China. For example, what are the social, financial, cultural and political challenges facing technological entrepreneurs in China? How do Chinese entrepreneurs contribute to innovative ventures in China?

Chapter 4

Sensemaking processes in Chinese entrepreneurial firms

This chapter explores the sensemaking process that unfolds in entrepreneurial firms by investigating how entrepreneurial firms navigate through uncertainty and equivocality

• Entrepreneurial learning as sensemaking
• Sensemaking processes in entrepreneurial firms
• Case studies

Xi Zhou, Jacky Hong and Robin Snell

Chapter 5

Guanxi networks and Chinese entrepreneurship

This chapter reviews the development of guanxi network in China and the impact on entrepreneurship

• The concept of guanxi
• Proliferation of guanxi networks in China
• Use of guanxi for Chinese startups

Chris Rowley

Chapter 6

Developing learning organization in China

This chapter assess the potential and obstacles for Chinese firms to become the learning organizations

• Spiritual foundations of learning organization
• Chinese Confucian values
• Case studies

Carry Mak and Anders Örtenblad

Part IV: Institutions and innovation

This part explores the roles played by the regional and national government in China for promoting innovation and learning of Chinese firms. For example, how do various institutional actors such as VCs, universities, research institutes interact with each other in shaping the process of innovation in China? How do innovation ecosystems (e.g. regional clusters, science parks and R&D networks) take shape in China?

Chapter 7

Innovation ecosystems in China

This chapter explores how the key actors in innovation ecosystem interact with each other in shaping the process of innovation in China

• An ecosystem perspective of innovation
• A Chinese ecosystem of innovation
• Innovative behaviors of Chinese firms

Jiangyong Lu

Chapter 8

Public-private partnerships and innovation in China

This chapter draws on a conceptual framework of public-private partnerships to investigate how partner organizations can develop effective innovation in China

• Motives of cooperation
• Innovation within public-private partnerships
• Case studies

Nelson Santos António

Part V: Conclusion

Chapter 9

Concluding remarks

The chapter summarizes the key organizational and institutional challenges of innovation facing Chinese firms. Some areas for future research will also be proposed.

Jacky Hong and Shenxue Li

Erscheinungsdatum	15.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	De Gruyter Studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship ; 6
Zusatzinfo	9 b/w ill., 18 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
Schlagworte	Business Model • Chinese Firms • chinesische Unternehmen • Geschäftsmodell • Innovation • institutional context • learning • Lernen
ISBN-10	3-11-071493-0 / 3110714930
ISBN-13	978-3-11-071493-7 / 9783110714937
Zustand	Neuware

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