Purpose: The past 40 years of reform and opening up have seen the role of core competence receive unprecedented attention because of the impact of the new normal economy as well as the pressure of transformation and upgrading. Few Chinese enterprises have effectively constructed core...

The paper investigates the relation between firms' innovation behaviour and the industrial innovation policy promoted by the Guangdong Province Government in the framework of its “Specialized Towns Program”. In this context there are very few academic studies, and non-Chinese scholars are...

The paper offers an analysis of the innovation performance of cluster-based leading enterprises in Guangdong Province (China). It is a first attempt in the international literature to examine the innovation strategy of cluster-based leading enterprises in the context of a transition economy. To...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the development strategies of two Chinese global players in the high‐tech sectors. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a case‐study approach on Huawei Technology Co. Ltd (Huawei) and Jing‐Hua Optical and Electronics Co. Ltd...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the deleveraging impact of the anti-corruption campaign since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on private firms with political connections, relative to those without political connections....