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Technical Innovation, Strategic Alliance And The Firm Performance

Posted on:2014-02-14Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z S FengFull Text:PDF
GTID:1229330395993687Subject:Technical Economics and Management
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As the creation of new industries and transformation in the industrial structure,technological change often plays a very important role. At the same time,it could erode thecompetition advantages that seemed invulnerable or force some manufacturers to adopt theBlue Ocean battlefield competitions. At present,the prosperity and success of many greatcompanies can not without their skills and abilities that related with the leadership oftechnological change. However,the technological change itself is not that important,onlywhen technological change affects the competitive advantage and industrial structure,thesignificance of it will be highlighted(Porter,1985).With the changes of environment and economic structure,The whole industry facessevere challenges that we can not imagine before. Due to increasingly fierce globalcompetition, the enterprises must confront more powerful foreign competitors than everbefore. in order to survive in today’s markets,enterprises must set up their own uniquecompetitive advantages,in this case,technology innovation is an indispensable part ofcreating these advantages. For today’s companies speaking,technology innovation is noteasy to create concrete results in short terms. As a result,in order to develop a suitabletechnological innovation strategy is very important and all over of the business world andscholars would exert themselves to explore the extent of it’s impact on companies’performances.The global communications network is in an important transition from2G,2.5G to3G,It is a very good development opportunity for the Chinese electronic and communicationequipment manufacturing industry. Communications equipment industry is one of thekey supports of new and high technology industries in our country and plays a veryimportant role in national economy."Five simultaneously plan" was put forward in theeighteenth National Congress of the CPC."Two combinations" put the informationization toa new level as an important basic industry for promoting the development of theinformationization, the future development of China’s electronic communications plays aleading role. In recent years, the Chinese government continues to increase, optical fiber broadband,3g pilot major telecom engineering construction, such as triple play to implement intelligentmobile terminal, industry solutions, etc., to popularize and apply industry benefit is obvious,the overall situation is good.However, at present, the manufactures of electronics and communications products stillface with a variety of uncertainties, and the risk element cannot be ignored. The main riskelements include:" the European debt crisis "escalates to tougher situation, which shrinks theexternal demand; the slow growth of domestic economic have influenced domestic demand;supply and demand structure tend to be imbalance; price of raw material stays at a high level,which is with obvious fluctuation; The RMB exchange rate continues to rise; Technologicallevel cannot achieve breakthroughs, etc.For the practical value, the rapid development of electronic communication industry inChina will promote technological innovation and have a new round of revolution. Comparedwith foreign enterprises, technology innovation ability among the whole electroniccommunication industry in our country is not strong, and strategic alliance cooperation effectis not prominent. As technological achievements, electronic communications industry inChina must sum up experience according to the development practice, the implementation ofalliance cooperation with domestic and foreign large enterprises, and joint research anddevelopment of new technology, so as to catch up with the world advanced level of R&D.Therefore, searching in technological innovation and strategic alliance of electroniccommunications industry is conducive to Chinese electronic communications industry toattaches great importance to technology development level and technological innovationfrom a strategic height, and through the strategic alliance by using external technology topromote the whole industry to achieve the overall linkage, through continuous innovationand progress in the implementation of strategic alliances to technology, shorten the time ofchanging technology into productive. It can also save a lot of money and research time. Atthe same time, this study also contribution to China’s electronic communications industry tomake technology innovation strategy and strategic alliance, timely and reasonable. A newpath to explore innovative technologies can be made through their own practice. They canbuild a new road suitable for their own development for themselves, actively participate ininternational competition. In addition, as the technology-intensive and talent-intensiveindustries, the level of development of the industry also represents the economicdevelopment level and the level of country, accelerating technological innovation in theindustry, which is beneficial to improve the whole level of technological development of thecountry. Which lay solid foundation for the establishment of the development of electroniccommunication industry in our country and long-term competitive advantage in order toenhance the development of science and technology, and improve the content of our nationaleconomy? From the theoretical point of view, although the parties to explore some research ontechnology innovation in electronic communication industry, and also produce someconsiderable achievements. It is especially important to these industry developmentachievements of philosophical research. However, for the electronic communicationsindustry, research on technology innovation, strategic alliance and enterprise performance isstill less, especially from the perspective of strategic alliance of technological cooperation inelectronic communication industry.In this paper, the technological innovation, strategicalliance and operation performance integration in a frame system, from the perspective ofinnovation and union perspective can supply and improve this research field. So it has acertain theoretical value.Based on related theory, life cycle theory, strategy alliance related theories; performancerelated theory and industrial transformation based on the analysis of the related research,combined with the electronic communications industry development present situation in ourcountry. We mainly research the relationship of technological innovation and corporateoperating performance, strategic alliance cooperation. The intermediate variable willconsider enterprise product life cycle. And it puts forward two propositions based on theliterature, namelyProposition1: Different technology innovation strategy combinations will have adifference in operating performance of different level.Proposition2: Different combinations of strategic alliance types will have a differencein operating performance of different level.Then, according to four companies’ different cases, namely, semiconductormanufacturers, instrument enterprises, fiber-optic network communication, and consumerelectronics enterprise synthetically analysis, the following conclusions:1. If electronic communication enterprises pay more attention to two aspects of leveland degree of technical competence of technological innovation strategy as well astechnology source, enterprise earning will more easily get promotion.2. If electronic communication enterprises pay more attention to two aspects of researchand development investment degree of technology innovation strategy as well as technicallevel and degree, enterprises operation ability more easily get promotion.3. If electronic communication enterprises pay more attention to the aspects of theability to obtain technology source, competition strategy, level and degree of technicalcompetence, investment portfolio, and so on, the productivity will be stronger.4.If electronic communication enterprises pay more attention to research anddevelopment of organization and policy as well as investment degree, and technicalcompetence level and degree etc., its vitality will be stronger.5. If electronic communication enterprises pay more attention to research anddevelopment of organization and policy, competitive strategy, technical competence level and degree etc., the stability will be stronger.6.The most frequent applications in electronic communication industry are technologydevelopment alliance, production operations and logistics alliance as well as sales andservice alliance, to enhance its operating performance.7. Electronic communication enterprises can effectively enhance the earning abilitythrough industry strategic alliance.8. Electronic communication enterprises can effectively enhance the operation abilitythrough the industry strategic alliance.9. Electronic communication enterprises can effectively improve the productivitythrough industry strategic alliance.10. Electronic communication enterprises can effectively enhance the vitality throughindustry strategic alliance.11. Electronic communication enterprises can effectively improve the stability byindustry strategic alliance.There are three innovative points in this paper and there are as follows:(1) For the first time to Integrate the six aspects of the technical innovation strategy,the four aspects of strategic alliance cooperation and the five aspects of operatingperformance into a framework. Research different combinations of technological innovationand strategic alliances, different impacts on business performance "five".Previously, researches on technology innovation mainly from innovation type, such astechnology innovation, process innovation to research technology innovation’s influence onbusiness performance, not to classify the technical innovation strategy in detail. More littlestudy on the different combination of technical innovation strategies’ impact on businessperformance "five".Although there is no lack of the study of the relationship between different strategiccombination and business performance. Few studies on the classification of strategies orstudy their impacts on the performances of "five". There is also a new attempt to put thethree variables into the same framework to study in this paper.For the first time to import the life cycle of products into model. Researches ondifferent stages of products’ life cycle of enterprises will use what kind of technologyinnovation strategy and strategic alliance strategy to improve the operating performances ofenterprises.Previously, researches on products’ life cycle are mainly concentrated in theclassification of the products’ life cycle, the life cycle of evolution and the influence of lifecycle of enterprise overall strategy, etc. Rarely to include life cycle in technologicalinnovation, strategic alliance relationship with the business performance.But it is included in this paper, Research the enterprise innovation strategy change indifferent life cycle stages and the strategic alliance’s impact on business performance. First to make electronic communications industry as the research target to verify thetechnology innovation strategy and strategic alliance’s relationship with businessperformance.Previous researches have focused on high-tech industry, but for industry classificationof the explanation is not clear. And general studies put many high-tech industries together,but lack of studies of electronic communications industry. This research thinks, it can onlyreveal the development of the industry rule and rule of enterprise operations if we researchon various industries and fields. Therefore, this article put the electronic communicationsindustry as the target for research is to reveal the basic conformation for the industrydevelopment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Technical innovation, Strategic Alliance, Firm performance, Electronic&Communication Industry
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