The Source of Innovation in China

Zhang, Yingying; Zhou, Yu

doi:10.1057/9781137335067

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“…There might be further potentially mediating factors that hinder or influence the causal path between culture and innovation, and particularly RIP. As Zhang and Zhou (2015) suggest in their review of culture and innovation in the Chinese context, moderation or interaction effects may exist and interfere in the direct relationship between these six insignificant cultural dimensions. For instance, low uncertainty avoidance may facilitate innovation via being modest and tolerating ambiguity, which provides space for learning and creativity.…”

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“…Though not being explicitly exemplified in Zhang and Zhou (2015), a similar logic may be applicable to the cultural dimensions of humane orientation, in-group collectivism and assertiveness orientation. Very probably the altruistic characteristic in the humane orientation, on the one hand, may distract an individual’s motivation towards innovation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Much attention has been given to innovation in the last six decades with recent growing interest in sustainable economic development. Innovation is especially relevant for the context of the present study – China – in its transition from an economic development model of manufacturing to innovation (Lau et al , 2013; Welch and Hao, 2015; Zhang and Zhou, 2015). We focus on innovation at the regional level in this paper, to explore the effect of culture on regional innovation performance (RIP).…”

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Culture and regional innovation performance: an exploration in China

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Zhang-Zhang²,

Tian

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between culture and regional innovation performance in China where innovation is deemed as a key for sustainable economic development. The diversity of China’s regional culture and its rising economic and innovative capability enhancement provides an opportunity for such an exploration. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts the GLOBE’s nine cultural dimensions to empirically examine the relationship between culture and Chinese regional innovation performance through multiple regression analysis. Findings The study results find that performance orientation and gender egalitarianism have positive and significant influences on regional innovation performance, while institutional collectivism has a negative and significant influence. The remaining six GLOBE cultural dimensions show no significant effect on regional innovation performance. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first research exploring the relationship between culture and regional innovation performance in a Chinese context by using GLOBE’s cultural dimensions that are deemed as a valuable empirical alternative to Hofstede’s cultural measures. The results of this study help further the understanding of the cultural influence in China’s regional innovation performance.

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Culture and regional innovation performance: an exploration in China

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Zhang-Zhang²,

Tian

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“…As mentioned, the country has become a "world's factory" (Ma et al 2009) and Chinese native companies have reached the leadership in some industries (Y. Zhang and Zhou 2015). The national government has accordingly revised its strategy and launched "Made in China 2025" in 2015, a policy program aimed to extensively support further industrial upgrading and climbing up the global value chains, especially in a number of priority sectors, such as advanced ICT, automation, power equipment, new materials and health (Kennedy 2015).…”

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The diffusion and embeddedness of innovative activities in China

2017

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China's unprecedented growth largely results from industrial development having critically sustained the country's economic transition after 1978. As common to the developmental context, catching-up capabilities have been both absorbed from external sources and generated by indigenous activities. These also represent exogenous and endogenous seeds of innovative activities respectively. The relative emphasis on the two has evolved over progressive industrialization-transition stages in China, leading the country to grow a global manufacturing hub. The volume and quality of innovative activities has however resulted unevenly distributed at a local level. Literature considers embeddedness, in particular, as one of the key features in the development of the local innovative environment. This paper investigates if the mixes of seeds may have delayed the innovative activities to gain embeddedness along their diffusion in the Chinese prefectural cities. In a great deal of stylization and methodological design, innovative activities are here approximated by the applications to the European Patent Office from China collected in the OECD REGPAT database as originally rearranged by the applicant's and inventor's prefectural locations. These locations are taken to build three indicators to be combined in a clustering procedure set to measure separate levels of embeddedness. The results suggest a growing diffusion and embeddedness of the innovative activities in the Chinese prefectural cities since the early-2000s, despite they remain highly concentrated in some regions, that is, mainly those having historically hosted the Special Economic Zones where more exogenous seeds appear to have actually delayed the innovative activities to gain embeddedness.

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“…The reason for this may be that companies in these cultural environments find it easier to overcome the barriers to innovating in new products and to introduce the changes required for installing their production processes (Ambos and Schlegelmilch, 2008). Zhang and Zhou (2015) have found that power distance has a positive influence on innovation within the context of Chinese companies. To analyse this relationship, the following working hypothesis is proposed:…”

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Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and R&D intensity as an innovation strategy: a view from different institutional contexts

Gallego‐Álvarez

Pucheta‐Martínez

2020

Eurasian Bus Rev

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The impact of all six of Hofstede's cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism/collectivism, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term/short-term orientation, and restraint/indulgence) on business innovation practice has not, to the best of our knowledge, been hitherto examined. Past research has focused on four or five of these cultural dimensions. The aim of this study is therefore to analyse how corporate innovation policies are affected by all these dimensions in a sample of firms operating in different countries. The paper draws on institutional theory, whereby firms domiciled in the same institutional context will behave in a similar manner and their decisions on innovation practices will therefore also be similar. The findings show that the cultural dimensions of power distance, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation are positively associated with innovation, while individualism has a negative effect, and indulgence has no effect whatsoever.

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The Source of Innovation in China

Cited by 23 publications

References 97 publications

Culture and regional innovation performance: an exploration in China

Culture and regional innovation performance: an exploration in China

The diffusion and embeddedness of innovative activities in China

Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and R&D intensity as an innovation strategy: a view from different institutional contexts

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