/implications – The research is based on a convenience sample of young consumers in a particular country – China. Generalizability of the … innovative consumers. Furthermore, since the youth market in China represents an enormous opportunity for marketers, the paper …

internal combustion engine, new energy vehicles (NEVs), within China. Design/methodology/approach – The broad strategic … approach of two sectors within the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low‐speed electric vehicle (LSEV … a key sector for China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no …

TD‐SCDMA technical standard in China through the lens of network analysis. Design/methodology/approach – The authors … innovation. The paper analyzes alliance governance structures and governance mechanisms in particular, and shows how they protect … and improve network‐based innovation capabilities and competitive advantages during a ten‐year period with the method of …

aims to consider environmental dynamism as a moderating variable, to build a theoretical model for innovation strategy and …/methodology/approach – A total of 400 high‐tech and knowledge intensive and other kind business firms in Yantz River Delta region in China were … for innovation strategy is positive and significant for dynamic capabilities. However, it also finds that the interaction …

adopted to estimate the direct effect of high-performance HRM on firm performance and the mediating role of innovation …. Findings – The results show that the impacts of high-performance HRM on firm performance are significant. Moreover, innovation … performance is not significant. The results strongly support the hypothesis that innovation holds intermediary variables between …

China’s institutional environment on manufacturing firms’ product and process innovation decisions. The findings also … dysfunctional competition on product and process innovation and firm performance. This study can help manufacturers in China take … process innovation and firm performance and describe how dysfunctional competition influences relevant outcomes. Design …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine how a firm's strategic orientation affects service innovation …: customer orientation, competitor orientation, cost orientation, service innovation, and market performance. Findings – Although … the relationship between cost orientation and service innovation is not supported, the relationships between customer …

Purpose – The importance of innovation to the performance of firms has led to numerous studies conducted to identify …

. This paper aims to focus on why China is moving from imitation to innovation, how MNCs are evolving their R&D activities in …/value – This is a fairly original paper in that there has been only limited research on innovation in China.  …Purpose – Multinational companies are increasingly locating R&D activities in emerging markets, particularly China …

's partnerships with private firms and government institutions are both directly related to the manufacturer's innovation performance …/value – This research draws from institutional theory to contribute to knowledge in the area of innovation by emphasizing the … importance of the overarching institutional logic on the effectiveness of different types of innovation‐driven research …