The Impact Research Of Network Organizations On The Competitiveness Of Industrial Clusters

Since the start of the twenty-first century, due to the unprecedented advancement of information technology and the general trend of economic globalization, the automobile manufacturing industry is developing rapidly in a more open environment and has become a pillar industry, giving an impetus to China’s economic development. However, China’s automobile manufacturing industry is not highly concentrated, the nodes of networks are not perfect, mutual connections are not very close, and the characteristics of the mature industry networks still need improvement and further development. At present, a large number of literatures are mainly qualitative analyses of the mechanisms of network organizations influencing the competitiveness in the industry, or case studies of specific network organizations influencing the competitiveness of industry clusters. Effective measures and empirical researches are relatively inadequate, especially for specific industry clusters like Tianjin automobile manufacturing industry. Almost no research is found on the industry cluster competitiveness from the perspective of network organization with Tianjin automobile manufacturing industry. Therefore, the main purpose of this dissertation is to explore the ways and methods of improving the competitiveness of Tianjin automobile manufacturing industry from the perspective of network organization.Firstly, a theoretical model of network organizations influencing industrial competitiveness is constructed based on the relevant theories, and then a questionnaire is designed with a view to investigating Tianjin automobile manufacturing network organizations and the industrial competitiveness, thus identifying the present situation of the main competitive advantages of Tianjin automobile manufacturing industry and the characteristics of the network organizations. Reliability and validity analyses, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis are conducted in the process.The empirical results show that, in general, typical network organization characteristics, network dynamics, network quality, honesty and reciprocity, network size and network openness are all playing positive roles in Tianjin automobile manufacturing industry competitiveness. Specifically, of all the characteristics identified, honesty and reciprocity influence the competitiveness of Tianjin automobile industry most significantly, being the core characteristics of network organizations and the basis of mutual cooperation between subjects, hence an enlightenment for industry management practice. Finally, based on the results of this research, some suggestions are proposed with the hope to contribute to the upgrading of the competitiveness of Tianjin automobile manufacturing industry.The innovation of this paper is as bellow:To Probe competitiveness of industrial clusters from the perspective of the network organization, Tianjin automobile manufacturing, for example, as an empirical analysis. To describes the mechanism sufficient conditions, necessary conditions, and the external environment that network organization impacts on industrial cluster competitiveness and to build a theory framework that network organization impacts on industrial cluster on theoretical basis by combining the advantages of strong ties and weak ties Advantage Theory,"embedded" theory, transaction cost theory, resource-based theory.This paper not only enriches the field of network organization theoretically, but also has some reference value to enhance the clusters competitiveness in Tianjin automotive industry.