Related Variety, Global Connectivity and Institutional Embeddedness: Internet Development in Beijing and Shanghai Compared

Jun Zhang

Regional Studies, 2013, vol. 47, issue 7, 1065-1081

Abstract: Zhang J. Related variety, global connectivity and institutional embeddedness: Internet development in Beijing and Shanghai compared, Regional Studies . This paper employs the notion of 'related variety' to compare the emerging Internet industry in China's two largest city-regions: Beijing and Shanghai. The findings confirm that the replication and diversification of related variety play a leading role in shaping the locational dynamics of an emerging industry. However, the localized nature of new firm formation cannot be taken for granted as transnational entrepreneurship and venture capital are playing an increasingly salient role. The contrasting experience of the Internet evolution in these two Chinese city-regions also suggests that a region's enduring political--institutional embeddedness significantly influences the generation and evolution of their related variety.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.622744

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