Yunshi Mao Livres

Focusing on the international division of labor, the book explores how emerging economy enterprises, particularly from China, can ascend the value chain. It redefines global value chain theory and introduces the concept of restructuring it. Through analyzing motivations, pathways, and impacts, the text develops a theoretical framework for understanding enterprise upgrading. Highlighting numerous case studies from Chinese manufacturing, it emphasizes the significance of transformation in achieving a new equilibrium in the global economy, offering valuable insights for research and policy.

This book discusses the experience of enterprise transformation and upgrading and the role of government in promoting this dramatic change in Asian emerging economies. The author specifically explores the direction, influencing factors, paths and modes of enterprise transformation and upgrading by conducting intensive case studies on a number of enterprises having accomplished upgrading in mainland China and Taiwan, and draws experience and lessons from them. These theoretical and practical insights have great significance for Chinese enterprises in improving their ability to respond to drastic external changes and provide useful reference for the formulation of government policies.