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This book addresses the multi-facet competitiveness of firms in China from an angle of strategic management of technology and innovation. The Chinese vanguard companies have been excellent in identifying strategic position and appropriately making strategic decisions, and effectively making strategy in action.

Competitiveness of Chinese Firms seeks to provide answers to important and urgent questions such as what exactly underpins competitiveness in the 21st century, and how Chinese firms could squeeze themselves into the ranks of top firms in the world within a short period of time. The book aims to explore and answer these questions by drawing upon over 30 years of observation and research on key Chinese companies, including Geely, Lenovo, Haier, Huawei and TCL. In particular, this book looks at how competitive advantage can be delivered through strategic management of technology and innovation, and focuses on the in-depth analyses of intangible resources, such as leadership, vision and strategy, knowledge creation, technology strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Ressources linguistiques et gestion relationnelle dans la Communauté chinoise de Paris
ZHENG Li-Hua
Un des traits majeurs des Chinois de Paris, c'est leur riche répertoire linguistique, lié étroitement à leur histoire migratoire. En fonction des statuts des langues, de la situation interlocutoire et de l'usage habituel, chacune des langues qu'ils possèdent est porteuse d'une série de connotions en ce qui concerne les droits et les obligations entre les partenaires. Ainsi, les ressources linguistiques dont disposent les locuteurs fonctionnent comme un moyen efficace pour la gestion des relations interpersonnelles dans l'interaction sociale. Celle-ci peut être conçue comme une négociation des rapports de force où les acteurs sociaux négocient continuellement les va et vient pour établir ou rétablir l'équilibre de la balance relationnelle. Certains liens peuvent s'établir entre la coexistence des variétés linguistiques, leurs fonctions sociales et la situation socio-économique des locuteurs chinois de Paris.

Personal consumption behavior has negative impacts on the environment, such as climate change and wasted resources. To eliminate the adverse effects, more manufacturers are producing environmentally friendly products and governments are encouraging residents to adopt energy-saving products. Among these products, energy-efficient appliances are designed to save energy in everyday life. In this research, we focused on examining the antecedents of consumers&rsquo ; acceptance of energy-efficient appliances. A combined framework of the technology acceptance model and the theory of planned behavior was used. The research was empirically tested using an online survey of 280 consumers. The study indicates that perceived ease of use had a significant impact on perceived usefulness ; moreover, it positively influenced consumers&rsquo ; attitudes. Subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and attitude significantly affected consumers&rsquo ; purchasing intention. However, perceived usefulness did not have direct significant effect on consumers&rsquo ; purchasing intention. Furthermore, we conducted a comparative analysis to further analyze the effect of consumers&rsquo ; awareness of the China Energy Label on their purchasing intentions. Finally, insights and suggestions are discussed.

Internationalisation and knowledge transfer are significant priorities for the education sectors in both developed and developing countries, not least because of their contribution to modernisation and enhanced innovation, competitiveness and quality of life. In relation to China and the UK, achieving internationalisation and knowledge transfer can be facilitated by strategic academic partnerships between the universities in both countries. The second phase of the UK Prime Minister's Initiative (PMI2) for International Education, launched in April, 2006, plays an important role in the internat

Philosophical notion and framework of the book -- Turbulent Chinese business environment -- Constructs and constituents of core competences -- Conversation with senior Chinese business executives -- A structured survey in Beijing, Tianjin and Shenzhen -- Creation of strategic flexibility and core competence

This essay takes an analytical approach to examine some Chinese science fiction narratives with the themes of climate change, terraforming, and environment degradation—written from the mid-20th century to the early years of the 21st century. My broad reading of the texts treats these narratives as archive—textual sources that document a historical development of the impact of human activities on nature. On one hand, these narratives are all closely related to the country's modernization, its economic takeoff, and the rhetoric of building a powerful China. On the other hand, they form one set of what can be understood as an emerging body of Chinese fiction located firmly within the strata and sediment of the Anthropocene. This body of literature offers a venue for explaining and exploring how economics, technological developments, and government policies have transformed the ecology, environment, and climate in the Anthropocene. These narratives also echo the concept of slow violence dubbed by Rob Nixon in 2011. These terraforming and climate narratives reveal an attritional violence of environmental degradation, climate change, and the consequential social and political problems that permeate so many of our lives. My close reading of Chen Qiufan's novel The Waste Tide ( Huangchao, 2013) specifically portrays a slow and attritional violence—namely, the ways in which the electronics recycling industry have caused severe environmental and occupational impacts on nature and humans—through exploration of the complex relationships among technology, the economy, and the environment.