Upgrading Through Linkages?: The Taiwanese Notebook Pc Production Network In China

Yang, Yung-Kai; Yang, Yung-Kai

ISBN 10: 363928853X / ISBN 13: 9783639288537

Published by Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010

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140 pages. 8.66x5.91x0.32 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Upgrading Through Linkages?: The Taiwanese Notebook Pc Production Network In China
• Publisher: Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 363928853X
• ISBN 13: 9783639288537
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.25 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book re-examines the upgrading through linkages thesis which argues that participation in global production networks is critical to the development of indigenous firms and industries in developing countries. We challenge the idea that 'quasi-hierarchy' or 'modular' production networks, a typology modelled largely on the evolution of the personal computer and associated electronics components, provides the greatest openness for participation and possibility for industrial upgrading for firms in developing countries. Through a empirical study into the organisation of supply linkages in the notebook PC industry, we find that both the incentive to create linkages with external firms, as well as the motivation for firms to support the build-up of local capabilities, were not present in the recent of restructing of notebook PC production from Taiwan to Mainland China.

About the Author

Yung-Kai Yang obtained his PhD degree from the Manchester Business School in the UK. He then worked for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a post-doctoral researcher. He is now teaching in the National University of Kaohisung (Department of Asia-Pacific Industrial and Business Management) as a assistant professor in Taiwan.