Industrial Democracy in the Chinese Aerospace Industry The Innovatio
This book provides an up-to-date insight to the many innovations of the indigenous aerospace industry from a socio-economic perspective, a final frontier of Chinese technology that will shape global competitive dynamics in the 21st century. An industry th
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Denise Tsang
Industrial Democracy in the Chinese Aerospace Industry The Innovation Catalyst
Denise Tsang Henley Business School University of Reading Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-58022-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58023-8
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PREFACE
I had the privilege in the past years to meet three scholars in the UK sent by the Chinese Scholarship Council, who kindly shared their knowledge with me in relation to innovative firms in the fast-changing state sector in China. Chinese state-owned enterprises have been associated with economic inefficiencies and were perceived as financial burdens. Yet, Chinese state aerospace firms have not only consistently launched new products but have also managed to re-invent themselves and alter their ownership, governance and strategic dynamics. The business system that the aerospace conglomerates AVIC, CASC, CASIC and COMAC have pursued derived from the country’s unique politico-economic and socio-cultural contexts being deeply entwined with its long history. The origin of the aerospace industry could be traced to the first generation of US-, UK- and Russian-trained Chinese scientists during the post-Second World period; these scientists gained experience within two diametrically opposed re
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