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Institutions, Innovation and Regional Economic Change

:	Malte Lech
:	Institutions, Innovation and Regional Economic Change
:	Franz Steiner Verlag
:	9783515111218
:	Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel
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:	CHF 43.70
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The regional economic development model of the Chinese Pearl River Delta is under increasing pressure to adapt. Local firms and their business models are faced with growing competition from other Chinese regions and Asian economies. Along with a slowdown in economic growth, firms and policy-makers are called for a reorganization of business models as well as for an overall adjustment of the regional economic growth model and economic upgrading.

Based on a case study of the electronics industry and supported by a mixed-methods approach, this e-book analyzes the role of formal and informal institutions for the process of regional economic adjustment and allows for an in-depth view into the changing economic landscape of the production cluster in the Pearl River Delta. It contributes to the emerging field of empirical studies on institutions and economic development in geography.

Follo ing a discussion of the role of institutions and innovation for regional economic change, four empirical chapters elaborate the role of firms' strategic adaptation, the role of financial markets for firm innovation, the use of supply-chains for interactive learning, and the role of the party administration and informality for the process regional economic adjustment.

Malte Lech studied geography majoring in economic geography at Leibniz University Hannover and Aalborg University, Denmark. He was research associate at the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at the Leibniz University Hannover from 2011 to 2012. He completed his PhD thesis on institutions, innovation and regional economic change in the electronics industry in the Chinese Pearl River Delta in 2015.

His focus of research is on regional innovation, industrial change and the development of emerging economies in East- and South-East Asia.

	CONTENTS	6
	LIST OF FIGURES	10
	LIST OF TABLES	11
	ABBREVIATION	12
	1. INTRODUCTION	14
	1.1 INSTITUTIONS IN A REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL	15
	1.2 A CHINESE SUCCESS STORY: THE GREATER PEARL RIVER DELTA	17
	1.3 TOWARD A NEW ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL?	20
	1.4 AIM AND SCOPE	21
	1.5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	24
	2. THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND	26
	2.1 INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND THE REGIONAL ECONOMY	26
	2.2 INNOVATION AND INDUSTRIAL UPGRADING IN CHINA	39
	2.3 DEVELOPING AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK	57
	3. METHODOLOGY	64
	3.1 EMPIRICAL RESEARCH DATA	64
	3.2 MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS	69
	3.3 CRITICAL METHOD EVALUATION AND LIMITATIONS	77
	4. INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND STRATEGIC ADAPTATION. A FIRM-LEVEL PERSPECTIVE ON THE POST-CRISIS ECONOMY OF THE CHINESE PRD	80
	4.1 INTRODUCTION	80
	4.2 THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND	82
	4.3 DATA AND METHODS	87
	4.4 EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF FIRM ADAPTATION PROCESSES	88
	4.5 CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION	101
	5. THE IMPACT OF FINANCING CHANNELS ON FIRM INNOVATION – IS THERE AN ‘INFORMALITY TRAP?’	104
	5.1 INTRODUCTION	104
	5.2 THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND	106
	5.3 DATA AND METHODS	113
	5.4 FINANCE AND INNOVATION IN THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY OF THE PRD	116
	5.5 CONCLUSION	124
	6. INTER-FIRM LEARNING IN THE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN – PROSPECT FOR ENHANCING LOCAL FIRMS’ INNOVATION PERFORMANCE?	127
	6.1 INTRODUCTION	127
	6.2 THE PROCESS OF INNOVATION FROM A SUPPLY-CHAIN PERSPECTIVE	130
	6.3 DATA AND METHODS	134
	6.4 ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS	137
	6.5 DISCUSSION	145
	6.6 CONCLUSION	149
	7. POLICIES OF RESTRUCTURING ECONOMIC GROWTH – TOWARDS A NEW GROWTH MODEL IN CHINA AND ITS PROVINCES?	151
	7.1 INTRODUCTION	151
	7.2 AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE CHINESE POLITICAL SYSTEM	153
	7.3 DATA AND METHODS	158
	7.4 THE CHINESE NATIONAL GROWTH MODEL	159
	7.5 POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN GUANGDONG PROVINCE	169
	7.6 INTERIM CONCLUSION	175
	7.7 THE FUTURE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CHINA	177
	7.8 CONCLUSION	180
	8. CONCLUSION	181
	8.1 ANSWERING THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS	181
	8.2 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS FOR A NEW REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL	184
	8.3 FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA	188
	LIST OF REFERENCES	190
	APPENDIX A: METHODOLOGY	210
	A1: SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS	210
	A2: ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE, 2011	211
	A3: LIST OF QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS, 2011	216
	A4: PARTIAL CORRELATION-MATRIX OF INDEPENDENT VARIABLES (CHAPTER 5)	217
	A5: CLASSIFICATION OF PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY	218
	APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES	221