... Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only China Performance Mediation R&D Potential absorptive capacity Realized absorptive capacity Claudio Petti is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: claudio.petti@unisalento.it Overall, existing literature...

...Quico Marin-Anglada; Fernando Campa-Planas; Ana Beatriz Hernandez-Lara Purpose – This article aims to compare the average profitability by sector for companies that have invested in China during 2008-2011, with the average profitability for Spanish firms from the same sector. Design...

... Performance Competitiveness Performance management Competitive strategy China Technological entrepreneurship has been characterized as a system (e.g. Abetti, 1992), a strategy (e.g. Gans and Stern, 2003), a process (e.g. Shane and Venkataraman, 2003), a capability (e.g. Hindle and Yencken...

...Lauretta Rubini; Lauretta Rubini; Elisa Barbieri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an updated picture of the emergence of specific firms, cities and sectors of excellence in one of the best performing industrial areas of China: Guangdong Province. Design/methodology...

... After having summarized the role of the country‐of‐origin (COO) in facilitating producers to effectively communicate to consumers the quality of their products, the article presents two case studies: the Chianti Classico wine from Tuscany (Italy) and the tea industry in Guangdong (China...

... the way for more general discussions on the emergence of champions of excellence in China. They reinforce the idea that Chinese industrial development is built on non‐conventional catching‐up processes at the country, local and firm level. They confirm that in order to fully catch the success of national...

... and effective local development policies. Originality/value In the international debate there are very few papers testing the relationship between policies and industrial performances in China. Even fewer explore this relationship at the local level. This paper offers a unique county‐level...

...Lucia Clara Banchieri; Fernando Campa‐Planas; Rosalia Cascón; Maria Belen Guercio; Ana Beatriz Hernández‐Lara; Maria Victoria Sánchez‐Rebull Purpose This article aims to analyse the reasons for Spanish companies to invest in China and the factors that influence the success or failure...

...‐based theory, this study employs a path analytic framework to investigate how employee competencies and IT applications influence the development of competitive operations strategies and business performance for a sample of retail firms in China. Findings The findings indicate significant...

... manufacturing firms in China. The competitive priority in internationalization efforts is gauged by combining the degree of emphasis of manufacturing firms on a certain factor over the past three years and the level of improvement of the factor into an index. Findings It is found that “technology...