This paper uses the case of China’s mobile telecom industry to illustrate the challenges of pursuing national industrial policy objectives in the context of a highly dynamic and interconnected global industry. The Chinese state deployed a full arsenal of industrial policy tools in its effort...

Program Summary:One of the key drivers of change in the automotive industry can be summed up by the word"globalization." Globalization is driving industry consolidation, the expanding role ofsuppliers, underbody commonalization, product diversification, and efforts to reduceminimum scale...

Vietnam is at a crossroads. It can grow as an export platform for GVCs, specializing in low value-added assembly functions with industrialization occurring in enclaves with little connection to the broader economy or society; or it can leverage the current wave of growth, enabled and accelerated...

This book investigates the process and mechanism of the capability development of East Asian local manufacturers, which has underpinned their phenomenal rise in the world's competitive landscape of industrial production during the last few decades.