Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-877720-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms?

China's domestic financial system fails most private firms by neglecting to give them sufficient support to pursue technological upgrading, even while smothering state-favoured firms by providing them with too much support. Due to their foreign financing, multinational corporations suffer from neither insufficient funds nor soft budget constraints, but they are insufficiently committed to China's development. Hybrid firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign financing are the hidden dragons driving China's technological development. They avoid the maladies of China's domestic financial system while remaining committed to enhancing China's domestic technological capabilities.

In sad contrast, China's domestic firms are technological paper tigers. State efforts to build local innovation clusters and create national champions have not managed to transform these firms into drivers of technological development.

These findings upend fundamental debates about China's political economy. Rather than a choice between state capitalism and building domestic market institutions, China has fostered state capitalism even while tolerating the importing of foreign market institutions. While the book's findings suggest that China's state and domestic market institutions are ineffective, the hybrids promise an alternative way to avoid the middle-income trap. By documenting how variation in China's institutional terrain impacts technological development, the book also provides much needed nuance to widespread yet mutually irreconcilable claims that China is either an emerging innovation power or a technological backwater.

Looking beyond China, hybrid-led development has implications for new alternative economic development models and new ways to conceptualize contemporary capitalism that go beyond current domestic institution-centric approaches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fuller, Douglas B.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Internationales Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part 1: Setting the Stage

- Introduction

- 1: The Framework

- Part 2: State Policy, Firms and Upgrading Outcomes

- 2: California (and Hsinchu) Dreaming: China's Flailing Efforts to Replicate Technology Clusters

- 3: Paper Tigers: The Weakness of China's National Champions

- 4: State-driven Technology Commercialization versus the Globalization of RandD

- Part 3: The Integrated Circuit Industry

- 5: IC Fabrication

- 6: IC Design: From Reverse Engineering to Innovation

- Part 4: China in Comparative Perspective

- 7: China's Global Hybrid Model for Development under Globalization

- 8: Importing Institutions and Comparative Capitalism

- 9: China's Economic Future and the Future Role of Hybrids

- Appendix: Interview List

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas B. Fuller is a Professor in the Department of Business Administration of Zhejiang University's School of Management. He previously taught at King's College London, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and American University in Washington, DC. His research spans the political economy of development, technology policy and strategy, and comparative capitalism with a geographic focus on East Asia.