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Network Formation,Network Learning,and Regional Development

Posted on:2003-10-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N Y K WenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360062990016Subject:Regional Economics
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Today, human society is moving to the era of knowledge economy. There are some signs of knowledge economy in China too. More and more people pay attention to the importance of network learning process, as an approach to obtaining knowledge and realizing innovation. In researching areas, network forming and network learning have become one hot topic. Foreign scholars have done extensive research on this area. Their mainly work were based on the background of west countries region. Chinese scholars have also done some worthwhile work, but their researches heavily depend on the approaches and models of west. On the one hand, they think little about the influence of China's history, culture, and institution background in network studying. On the other hand, their analysis of network learning is so abstract. As the result, this research is based on china's special history, culture, and institution background. After a detailed study, the following fining were obtained:First, network in this paper is a synthetic substance of local behavior subjects and their relationship, which concentrates relatively on an area and relates to enterprise activity. Network include the formal and non-formal relationship, which among enterprises (producer, competitor, cooperator, supplier, customer), between enterprise and other local behavior subjects, such as university, scientific research institution, government and intermediary institution. Network constitutes the base of existence and development of enterprises. It has its personalities, such as extensive linkage, multilateral subject, boundless integration, mutually beneficial internal, and knot acting mutually etc.Second, the reasons of network formation are complicated. Work dividing and specialization, the model of organization and management changing, competition and coordination development, all those factors help to bring about the formation of network. This paper emphasis that Special history, culture, institution environment have deep influence on networks formation. In China those factors influence the personalities of thenetwork formation. The relationship under the function of Confucianism, Buddhism, family institution product cohesive force, trust, and prompt the network formation and guarantee the stability of network.Third, the process of network learning and innovation is not abstract There are some rules in this process. This paper thinks that the non-formal relationship in the network is the mainly thoroughfare of learning. Network is the carrier of knowledge flow. Through network learning can realize innovation.Fourth, the improving of network will prompt innovation. We can do some work ma king the network perfectly. Such as raising the level of labor quality, heightening the density of network, adding the validity of formal and non-formal relationship, expanding the social capital etc. A perfect network will produce more innovation.Fifth, Some non-normal relationship, such as the traditional culture of china and family institutions affect the formation of textile industry network in Zhaizhen deeply. Because of the special institutional background in China, local government has strong community feeling, and takes part in the formation of network actively. The local textile network in Zhaizhen can be separated into two models: cap horizontal network and toweling coverlet vertical network. In network learning process, producer, customer, suppler of raw materials, suppler of machine, cooperator, and government act mutually. Though lots of non-normal relationships, all kinds of knowledge and information flowing, transmitting, disseminating, colliding, and explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge changing mutually, produce a kind of gradual innovation梚mitated innovation. Today, needs of customer change frequently. In this circumstance, network learning and innovation construct the advantages of textile industry of Zhaizhen. There are several questions in the development of Zhaizhen textile industry network. Those need improving the network through all...
Keywords/Search Tags:network, network learning, network forming, innovation
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