Study On Spatial Organization Of Entreprise With The Supply Chains Embeddedness Perspectives

Along with market opportunities and competitive pressures brought by economic globalization, a model of competition based on supply chains is becoming an important source of strength to enterprise. So, if we stand in the point of view of supply chains about the problem of spatial organization of enterprises, it will be of great significance to Chinese economy and enterprise which are integrating into the global network increasingly. This also composes the research perspective of dissertation. In this paper, with the competition pattern that market competition transforming from the competition among individual to the competition in supply chain as the premise and with the object of R&D, procurement, production, assembly, sales and external primary and secondary suppliers as the scope of the study, the study of corporate spatial organizations was initiated along the growth trail of the location under supply chain embedment to the supply chain localization and even to supply chain globalization.The dissertation is constituted by two components of theory research positive analysis. In the part of theory research concluding chapter two, three, four and five, theoretical framework of spatial organizations in the enterprise was established from the perspective of the supply chains embedment, and in the part of positive analysis including chapter six and seven, the case of automotive and the distribution of TOYOTA in Guangzhou was presented to further explain the spatial organizations of the automotive, and also to verify the theoretical assumptions, and to form the conclusion.Chapter One: the research scopes, perspectives and methods of dissertation were proposed after the review of research background and related knowledge from China and abroad, and then the framework of the thesis was given.Chapter Two: In this chapter, firstly the related research about supply chains and spatial organization of enterprises were reviewed and then the characters and type of organization of enterprise in the different periods were sorted out. Ground on this, a framework from the perspective of supply chains embedment about the spatial organization of enterprises was established.Chapter Three: Basing on the study of the traditional factors about enterprise location choosing, the factors of enterprise location choosing and guide of strategy were put forward from the perspective of supply chains embedment.Chapter Four: the evolution and dynamic mechanism of enterprise supply chains from localization to cluster were put forward and the basic types of supply chains being to the cluster localization were also analyzed basing on the sum of charactersChapter Five: according to the procedure of the enterprise spatial organizations from the closed localization cluster to globalization networks promoted by the global strategy of enterprise, the formation of global supply chain network, division of the work, spatial structure and its administration of networks were studied.Chapter Six: as one part of positive study, with an example of cluster of automobile manufacture from Europe, America and Japan, the spatial expanding trail of automobile manufacture from the localization of cluster to globalization and the process of forming a supply chains network with multi-core at a global scale were analyzed and the model of enterprise administration and the division of labor under the network of global supply chain also were discussed.Chapter Seven: as the other part of positive study, the procedure of embedment into Chinese market by automobile Multinational Corporation from part to depth was sorted out. Basing on that, the driving force of the depth of embedment about supply chains of Multinational Corporation and the trend of supply chains spatial organization of the localization cluster of multinational corporations in China were studied. With the case of Toyota, its distribution, the driving force of embedment into Guangzhou, the special organization of supply chains in the region of Guangdong, the effect to local automobile industry and the growth path of supply chain facing to the global market were analyzed.Chapter Eight: As the "Conclusions" section of this paper, the main conclusions of research, as well as the contents needed to be further improved and added in the follow-up studies were summarized.After the theoretical analysis, it has been found that the embedment of enterprise location initiated from the nodes of supply chains. So the local organization is the base of the other enterprises clustering together. The supply chain of Enterprise from the local cluster towards the internationalization and globalization is the process of copy and evolution of the supply chain clusters emerging in the new markets. The global network of supply chain as the highest organization of enterprise expanding was coming into being based on the nodes and localization cluster of supply chains and the links between them. At the time of the global competition towards supply chain competition, with the expansion of spatial organization and the location embedment of critical factors about supply chains (for example the leading enterprise), the projection of supply chain organizations in space, specifically reflected the progressive process ,as follows: points (embedded in the supply chain)→line (the part embedment of supply chain )→cluster (embedment in the depth of the supply chain, supply chain localization)→network (supply chain regionalization , supply chain globalization).It was further found through the positive analyze that the factor of supply chain aggregation played an important role during the location embedment of automobile manufacturing. The successful example set by the investment of leading enterprise across region resulted that the original primary and secondary providers and the competitor followed the steps to shift new place and also gave birth to a large number of local suppliers having emerged. So a located cluster of supply chain would be formed and grew gradually with the location embedded by the leading enterprise (or Branch Corporation). During the entering the global market, the automobile manufacturers adopted the spatial expanding model that the enterprise in the home country had built the local cluster of supply chain and led to a number of new clusters in overseas markets. The local cluster of supply chain played an important role in the local regional market and also maintained close contact with the cluster in the home countries. So, spatial organization of multinational automotive companies was based on the framework of local cluster of supply chain in the home countries and the overseas cluster derived from home, and was also consisted by the number of supply chain elements of the node as a linked network of supply chain...