Are Chinese firms innovative or imitative? Zheng, C. 2010, Are Chinese firms innovative or imitative?, in EURAM 2010 : Proceedings of the 10th Annual European Academy of Management conference : Back to the future, EURAM, [Rome, Italy]. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads zheng-arechinese-2010.pdf Published version application/pdf 5.86MB 147 Title Are Chinese firms innovative or imitative? Author(s) Zheng, C. orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-1115 Conference name European Academy of Management. Conference (10th : 2010 : Rome, Italy) Conference location Rome, Italy Conference dates 19-22 May 2010 Title of proceedings EURAM 2010 : Proceedings of the 10th Annual European Academy of Management conference : Back to the future Editor(s) [unknown] Publication date 2010 Conference series European Academy of Management Conference Publisher EURAM Place of publication [Rome, Italy] Keyword(s) innovative imitative strategy capabilities performance Chinese firms Summary In recent time, many Chinese firms have not only operated quite successfully at their home front, competing with those giant multinational companies inside China, they are also moving offshore. The short internationalisation process of Chinese firms looks both sudden and unexpected, causing many to wonder the success factors for Chinese firms. A dynamic innovation that combines strategic, organisational, cost as well as technological change was believed to have contributed to the fast growing Chinese firms in the global stage. This paper reviews the literature related to these areas of innovation. It also discusses reasons for firms to innovate or imitate, using institutional perspective and resource-based view (RBV). Intertwined with these discuss ion, empirical studies of innovative performance among Chinese firms are also analysed. The results show that in fact most Chinese firms still follow an imitative strategy, but there is a clear evidence of strategic cost innovation widely practiced among Chinese firms. Language eng Field of Research 150305 Human Resources Management Socio Economic Objective 910402 Management HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2010, The Authors Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30032746 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Deakin Business School Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to conference website Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 16 Feb 2011, 12:49:54 EST Mon, 21 Feb 2011, 11:23:43 EST Mon, 21 Feb 2011, 11:24:27 EST Tue, 14 Jun 2011, 09:38:34 EST Tue, 14 Jun 2011, 09:45:41 EST Tue, 14 Jun 2011, 09:50:33 EST Tue, 14 Jun 2011, 09:51:53 EST Tue, 14 Jun 2011, 09:57:41 EST Fri, 20 Jan 2012, 09:40:04 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 18:35:58 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 10:46:53 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 15:16:16 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 816 Abstract Views, 147 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 16 Feb 2011, 12:49:54 EST