Impact of Industrial Linkages on Firm Performance in Development Zones

Hu, Zhining; Zheng, Jian‐Guo; Wang, Jialing

doi:10.2753/1097-1475440205

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“…Regression results are obtained by using STATA10.0. development zone or an industrial cluster not because of possible spatial spillovers, but because of the "policy rent" offered by the Chinese government in such areas (Hu, Zheng, and Wang 2011;Zheng et al 2008).…”

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Technological Capacity, Product Position, and Firm Competitiveness

Gao

Zhi-biao

Song

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The Chinese Economy

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using firm-level data from a 2009 survey conducted in Suzhou city, jiangsu province, this article examines the impact of technological capacity and value-chain position on a firm's product competitiveness. Technological capacity and product competitiveness are self-assessed relative to other firms and products in the same industry. Position on the value chain is measured relative to a firm's position as an original-brand manufacturer or not. Our empirical results show that competitiveness rises with a firm's technological capacity and its position on the global value chain. This finding is consistent with the theoretical prediction. The article also investigates the determinants of technological capacity and value-chain position, including the firm's size, research and development (r&D) spending, location dummies, educational level of technical and managerial personnel, wages Downloaded by [University of Otago] at 18:00 15 July 2015 56 The ChineSe eCOnOmy of technical and managerial personnel, and enterprise ownership. bootstrapping, probit, and linear probability regression models are employed.

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Section: Determinants Of Technological Capacitymentioning

confidence: 96%

Technological Capacity, Product Position, and Firm Competitiveness

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Zhi-biao

Song

et al. 2013

The Chinese Economy

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“…The financial indicators are: sales growth, growth in profits, changes in assets by gross value plant and machinery, return on assets to measure capital efficiency. The non-financial indicators are: growth in market share; product success; increase in number of employees and labour productivity (Gakure, Kimemia, & Waititu, 2014;Hu, Zheng, & Wang, 2011;Kongmanilaa & Takahashib, 2009;Marimuthu, Arokiasamy, & Ismail, 2009;Nwokocha & Madu, 2015;Ongonga & Abeka, 2011;Tuan & Yoshi, 2010). This was used by this paper to probe whether innovations of SMEs contributed to their performance in Nigeria.…”

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The role of subcontracting on innovation: an assessment of small and medium enterprises in Nigeria

Nwokocha

Nwankwo

Madu

2019

Production & Manufacturing Research

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This paper investigated the influence of subcontracting on innovation and its impact on the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Onitsha, Nigeria. The paper adopted a number of methods comprising of field observations, reference to relevant literature, and a questionnaire survey of 113 SMEs. Regression, mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the data. In line with the literature, this paper identified seven (7) dimensions of subcontracting assistance from large scale industries to small business firms. The paper found that subcontracting relationship between large scale industries and SMEs is inclined to production and product-related cooperation where the contractors are concerned with meeting fluctuation in demand and shortening long delivery times. This paper concluded by suggesting that subcontracting relationship between SMEs and large scale industries should not be restricted to production, purchase, finance and marketing assistance. It should also be extended to human resource development and organisational-know-how. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Research gap (Berry, 1997;Yasuda, 2005;Marsall et al, 2007) suggest subcontracting has positive impacts on a firm"s performance while Hu et al (2011) contend there is insignificant relationship between such industrial linkages and firm performance. Given these positive and negative sides of subcontracting, it is uncertain how subcontracting influences firm performance.…”

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Influence of Subcontract Offering on the Performance of Manufacturing Micro and Small Enterprises in Kenya

Gakure¹

2014

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This study set out to investigate the influence of intensity of participation in subcontract offering on the performance of manufacturing micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Kenya. The study used an exploratory research design targeting a population of 2450 MSEs from Kamukunji 'JuaKali' Association, Nairobi Kenya. A random sample of 180 firms returned 175 (97.2%) valid responses. Survey data was collected with a semistructured questionnaire through face-to-face interviews. A pilot test on 20 firms helped to improve the instrument while the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method extracted the factors with reliability cut-off value of 0.70. Factors loadings that were less than 0.40 were discarded. Descriptive statistics presented the responses in means and standard deviations. To sharpen inferences, ordinal regression analysis was performed using the Polytomous Universal Model (PLUM) of SPSS for Windows 19 location-scale model. Response frequencies of firm performance, ordered in 5-part Likert-type categories, were positively skewed, thus,the negative log-log link function was used. Model fitting information provided log likelihood ratio tests for the null hypothesis that the independent variable was statistically equal to zero. The study found that the intensity of participation in subcontract offering influences firm performance, positively and significantly.

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Impact of Industrial Linkages on Firm Performance in Development Zones

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

Technological Capacity, Product Position, and Firm Competitiveness

Technological Capacity, Product Position, and Firm Competitiveness

The role of subcontracting on innovation: an assessment of small and medium enterprises in Nigeria

Influence of Subcontract Offering on the Performance of Manufacturing Micro and Small Enterprises in Kenya

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