Lech Institutions, Innovation and Regional Economic Change

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-515-11121-8
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 18, 220 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel.

The regional economic development model of the Chinese Pearl River Delta is under increasing pressure to adapt. Local firms and their business models are faced with growing competition from other Chinese regions and Asian economies. Along with a slowdown in economic growth, firms and policy-makers are called for a reorganization of business models as well as for an overall adjustment of the regional economic growth model and economic upgrading.Based on a case study of the electronics industry and supported by a mixed-methods approach, this e-book analyzes the role of formal and informal institutions for the process of regional economic adjustment and allows for an in-depth view into the changing economic landscape of the production cluster in the Pearl River Delta. It contributes to the emerging field of empirical studies on institutions and economic development in geography.Following a discussion of the role of institutions and innovation for regional economic change, four empirical chapters elaborate the role of firms' strategic adaptation, the role of financial markets for firm innovation, the use of supply-chains for interactive learning, and the role of the party administration and informality for the process regional economic adjustment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lech, Malte

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Wirtschaftsgeographie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;LIST OF FIGURES;10
3;LIST OF TABLES;11
4;ABBREVIATION;12
5;1. INTRODUCTION;14
5.1;1.1 INSTITUTIONS IN A REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL;15
5.2;1.2 A CHINESE SUCCESS STORY: THE GREATER PEARL RIVER DELTA;17
5.3;1.3 TOWARD A NEW ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL?;20
5.4;1.4 AIM AND SCOPE;21
5.5;1.5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;24
6;2. THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND;26
6.1;2.1 INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND THE REGIONAL ECONOMY;26
6.2;2.2 INNOVATION AND INDUSTRIAL UPGRADING IN CHINA;39
6.3;2.3 DEVELOPING AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK;57
7;3. METHODOLOGY;64
7.1;3.1 EMPIRICAL RESEARCH DATA;64
7.2;3.2 MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS;69
7.3;3.3 CRITICAL METHOD EVALUATION AND LIMITATIONS;77
8;4. INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND STRATEGIC ADAPTATION. A FIRM-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE ON THE POST-CRISIS ECONOMY OF THE CHINESE PRD;80
8.1;4.1 INTRODUCTION;80
8.2;4.2 THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND;82
8.3;4.3 DATA AND METHODS;87
8.4;4.4 EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF FIRM ADAPTATION PROCESSES;88
8.5;4.5 CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION;101
9;5. THE IMPACT OF FINANCING CHANNELS ON FIRM INNOVATION – IS THERE AN ‘INFORMALITY TRAP?’;104
9.1;5.1 INTRODUCTION;104
9.2;5.2 THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND;106
9.3;5.3 DATA AND METHODS;113
9.4;5.4 FINANCE AND INNOVATION IN THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY OF THE PRD;116
9.5;5.5 CONCLUSION;124
10;6. INTER-FIRM LEARNING IN THE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN – PROSPECT FOR ENHANCING LOCAL FIRMS’ INNOVATION PERFORMANCE?;127
10.1;6.1 INTRODUCTION;127
10.2;6.2 THE PROCESS OF INNOVATION FROM A SUPPLY-CHAIN PERSPECTIVE;130
10.3;6.3 DATA AND METHODS;134
10.4;6.4 ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS;137
10.5;6.5 DISCUSSION;145
10.6;6.6 CONCLUSION;149
11;7. POLICIES OF RESTRUCTURING ECONOMIC GROWTH – TOWARDS A NEW GROWTH MODEL IN CHINA AND ITS PROVINCES?;151
11.1;7.1 INTRODUCTION;151
11.2;7.2 AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE CHINESE POLITICAL SYSTEM;153
11.3;7.3 DATA AND METHODS;158
11.4;7.4 THE CHINESE NATIONAL GROWTH MODEL;159
11.5;7.5 POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN GUANGDONG PROVINCE;169
11.6;7.6 INTERIM CONCLUSION;175
11.7;7.7 THE FUTURE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CHINA;177
11.8;7.8 CONCLUSION;180
12;8. CONCLUSION;181
12.1;8.1 ANSWERING THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS;181
12.2;8.2 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS FOR A NEW REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL;184
12.3;8.3 FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA;188
13;LIST OF REFERENCES;190
14;APPENDIX A: METHODOLOGY;210
14.1;A1: SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS;210
14.2;A2: ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE, 2011;211
14.3;A3: LIST OF QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS, 2011;216
14.4;A4: PARTIAL CORRELATION-MATRIX OF INDEPENDENT VARIABLES (CHAPTER 5);217
14.5;A5: CLASSIFICATION OF PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY;218
15;APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES;221

Über Autor(innen)

Lech, Malte
Malte Lech studied geography majoring in economic geography at Leibniz University Hannover and Aalborg University, Denmark. He was research associate at the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at the Leibniz University Hannover from 2011 to 2012. He completed his PhD thesis on institutions, innovation and regional economic change in the electronics industry in the Chinese Pearl River Delta in 2015.

His focus of research is on regional innovation, industrial change and the development of emerging economies in East- and South-East Asia.