Innovation in product architecture—A study of the Chinese automobile industry

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Product Architecture ◽  
Chinese Automobile Industry

Comparison Between Uniform Tariff and Progressive Consumption Tax in the Chinese Automobile Industry*

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-213
Author(s):  
Caixia Shen ◽  
Yanfei Wang ◽  
Junji Xiao ◽  
Xiaolan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Consumption Tax ◽  
Chinese Automobile Industry

Dynamic patterns of technology collaboration: a case study of the Chinese automobile industry, 1985–2010

2014 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 663-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuandi Wang ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
Lutao Ning ◽  
Deming Zeng ◽  
Xin Gu
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Dynamic Patterns ◽  
Chinese Automobile Industry

Whose Hard Times?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Joint Ventures ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Chinese Automobile Industry ◽  
New Generation

This chapter carries out an in-depth analysis of the transformation of China's automobile industry and its labor force over the past two decades, with particular attention on how shop-floor, national, and global processes interact in complex ways to produce the specific industrial relations and dynamics of labor unrest in the Chinese automobile industry. It argues that the massive foreign investment in China's auto sector through joint ventures and the increased scale and concentration of automobile production have created and strengthened a new generation of autoworkers with growing workplace bargaining power and grievances. However, the acute contradictory pressures of simultaneously pursuing profitability and maintaining legitimacy with labor have driven large state-owned automakers and Sino-foreign joint ventures to follow a policy of labor force dualism, drawing boundaries between formal and temporary workers. While formal workers enjoy high wages, generous benefits, and relatively secure employment, temporary workers suffer comparatively low wages, unsecure employment, and heavier and dirtier job assignments. Temporary and other low-wage autoworkers have also become the main source of militancy in the auto industry.

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