Antecedents to Catching Up in Low-Tech Industries: Group-level dynamics in the Chinese Hypermarket Industry 1992-2011

Philippe Monin and Jie Xiong
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Philippe Monin: EM - EMLyon Business School

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Abstract: Building on archives and 49 interviews, we provide a historical account of the emergence of the hypermarket industry in China from 1992 to 2011. We identify four major factors that explain catching up processes: learning, managerial mobility, government intervention and local advantages. Unlike existing research, we find that technologyrelated factors did not play a role in the catching up processes, yet supply-chain management did. Consistent with the existing literature, we find that policy-related factors (government intervention) and market- knowledge related factors (learning) but also hardly mentioned additional market- knowledge related factors such as managerial mobility and local advantages played a major role.

Keywords: catching up; emerging markets; China; retailing; hypermarket; low-tech (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12-01
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Published in Management international = International management = Gestión internacional, 2015, 19 (num. spec.), pp.148-168 P

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