Manufacturing Competency: Roots of Competitive Advantage of Chinese Electric Vehicle Battery Industry
Wei Zhao,
Boy Luethje
Abstract:China’s leading development of a complete battery value chain for Electric Vehicles (EV) is restructuring the global automotive sector. The competitive advantage of China's EV battery industry lies on its firms’ core competency and political economic geography. Based on first-hand empirical material and data obtained from years of fieldwork in an EV battery cluster in South China, this paper identifies what the Chinese EV battery industry’s core competency is and details how it is built up from below.… Show more
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