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

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 exis...

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Published in:Management international (Montréal) 2015-12 (19 (num. spec.)), p.148-168 P.
Main Authors: Monin, Philippe, Xiong, Jie
Format: Article
Language:English
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Business administration
Economics and Finance
Humanities and Social Sciences
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1206-1697
1918-9222