Abstract: This article examines the creation of industrial enterprises and the basic models of firm-level technological learning behaviour of the last 20 years in China. Six case studies of technological learning and links to external sources of know-how from the South of China in the Pearl River Delta are examined. It is shown that the learning process that has been experienced in these enterp...

 Existing strategic group studies have rarely examined ownership type as a variable to classify firms in an industry. Using Chinese firms of different ownership types, we suggest that ownership type can be a parsimonious and important variable that managers use to cognitively classify firms into different strategic groups. While ownership itself is an objective variable, we contend that...

Since the Reform and Open Door Policy Initiative launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the Chinese government gradually undertook the open door policy towards foreign direct investment (FDI). First, the government created Special Enterprise Zones (SEZ) in the selected coast cities. A set of preferential treatment is granted to the foreign enterprises invited in SEZs with a restriction on the trans...

The use of foreign direct investment as a channel of international spillovers is by now fairly established in the empirical literature on innovation and growth. It is often argued that subsidiaries of foreign multinational enterprises are a mechanism through which technological know-how flows across borders. For foreign subsidiaries to be channels of international spillovers, these subsidiaries...

Through analyzing Chinese and foreign sports industry TFP, by applying DEA approaches to detect Chinese and foreign sports product industry TFP fluctuation, and researching on its influence factors targeted at the case, the paper gets Chinese and foreign sports product industry overall TFP index description process from year 2010 to 2013, gets that Puma, Adidas, and Nike represented foreign spo...

This paper reviews and summarises the results of selected studies on performance gaps between multinational enterprises and their domestic counterparts. Performance gaps arise in such fields as productivity, technology, profitability, wages, skills and growth. While these gaps are often attributed to foreign ownership of the affiliates, the theory of the Multinational Enterprise argues that the...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has taken an important role in economic development in China. During the period of Greece economy recovery, new Marshall Plan would offer good opportunities to Chinese enterprises, if FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) can be made on scientific analysis basis in order to avoid risks. As a growing country, China would make more contribution in economy recovery in Gre...