In this forum, we present three essays that collectively seek to document and explain the rise of China's digital economy. The first essay written by Hong Jiang – who is based in China – and myself – who is based in the West – focuses on documenting the rise of China's digital economy by comparing… More »
My Notes — China
China Innovation Capacity Growth Index 2015 and 2020
It is of interest in China and across the world to predict whether China will catch up with the most economically advanced nations in innovation capacity. To facilitate an ongoing assessment of China’s innovation capacity, the article develops a China Innovation Capacity Growth Index composed of eight separate measures. China’s performance in 2020 is compared… More »
My Writings on Chinese Firms and Innovation in the Chinese Economy
I collected all my Writings on Chinese Firms and Innovation in the Chinese Economy in one place.
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Excerpt from Last Interview with Jim March
Peter Ping Lee interviews James March. I provide here what I personally found the most interesting part of the full interview. Peter: In your MOR 2005 article (March 2005), you referred to the peripheral position of the indigenous research communities relative to the mainstream research community. Do you think the Chinese research community is like… More »
Peter Hessler: “How China Controlled the Coronavirus”
The China expert Peter Hessler has written an informative letter on How China Controlled the Coronavirus drawing on his experience on teaching a class on non-fiction writing in Sichuan during the pandemic. Read Article. You can listen to a podcast of the article as well.
The Management Transformation of Huawei: From Humble Beginnings to Global Leadership
Huawei has become China's most prominent multinational company and a leader in the ICT sector. Given unprecedented access to the company, the authors of this book examine the management transformation of Huawei from its inception in 1987 until 2019, observing in detail not only the creation of its organizational routines but also the breaking of… More »
What Does the Success of Tesla Mean for the Future Dynamics in the Global Automobile Sector?
After reading Jacobides, MacDuffie, and Tae (2016), the success of Tesla in launching a new automobile company in a crowded sector puzzled us. Jacobides, MacDuffie, and Tae (2016) had convinced us that developing the capabilities to become the manufacturer of a complete, safe automobile system would be quite difficult. Researching the development history of Tesla,… More »
More Exploration and Less Exploitation: Cultivating Blockbuster Papers for MOR
Let me invite you to travel in your mind to the year 2030. Imagine that you are one of the Senior Editors of MOR and have been asked by the Editor-in-Chief to write a short retrospective on the previous 15 years. Delighted to take on this task, you compose an editorial along these lines: [I]Dear… More »
“China’s Innovation Challenge” published with Cambridge University Press
Arie Lewin, Martin Kenney and Johann Peter Murmann edited a new book on China's Innovation Challenge: Overcoming the Middle-Income Trap. New March 2016: Download Fronter Matter and Introductory Chapter The book will also feature contributions from Justin Yifu Lin, Gordon Redding, Michael Witt, Keun Lee, Douglas Fuller, John Child, Simon Collison, Yves Doz, Keeley Wilson,… More »
Review of “China’s Path to Innovation” by Xiaolan Fu
To date there are few research monographs that go beyond picking out striking cases of innovative companies. We clearly also need systematic analyses of China’s growing innovative capacity. For this reason, Xiaolan Fu’s book China's Path to Innovation (Cambridge University Press, 2015) is a welcome addition to the literature. Fu is Professor of Technology and… More »