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Productivity performance in Chinese business groups: the positive and negative impacts of business group affiliation (2011)
Journal Article
Sutherland, D., Ning, L., & Beatson, S. (2011). Productivity performance in Chinese business groups: the positive and negative impacts of business group affiliation. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 9(2), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2011.568685

This paper considers evidence on business group productivity performance in China. It also carries out a detailed investigation into China's 50 largest groups to see if pyramidal groups are forming. As such, we further explore what can be considered... Read More about Productivity performance in Chinese business groups: the positive and negative impacts of business group affiliation.

Exploring ‘Onward-Journey’ ODI Strategies in China’s Private Sector Businesses (2011)
Journal Article
Sutherland, D., & Ning, L. (2011). Exploring ‘Onward-Journey’ ODI Strategies in China’s Private Sector Businesses. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 9(1), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2011.542885

Are the internationalization strategies of China's private businesses different from those of state-owned businesses? To date, little systematic empirical research addresses this question, despite the now well-established arguments that market and in... Read More about Exploring ‘Onward-Journey’ ODI Strategies in China’s Private Sector Businesses.

China’s Leadership in the World ICT Industry: A Successful Story of its ‘Attracting-in’ and ‘Walking-out’ Strategy? (China’s Outward and Inward Foreign Direct Investment Policies) (2009)
Journal Article
Ning, L. (2009). China’s Leadership in the World ICT Industry: A Successful Story of its ‘Attracting-in’ and ‘Walking-out’ Strategy? (China’s Outward and Inward Foreign Direct Investment Policies). Pacific Affairs, 82(1), 67-91

This paper questions whether China’s “attracting-in” (selective introduction of inward foreign direct investment, foreign technologies and import) and “walking-out” (export and outward investment expansion) strategies have enabled it to achieve a lea... Read More about China’s Leadership in the World ICT Industry: A Successful Story of its ‘Attracting-in’ and ‘Walking-out’ Strategy? (China’s Outward and Inward Foreign Direct Investment Policies).

China’s rise in the world ICT industry : industrial strategies and the catch-up development model (2009)
Book
Ning, L. (2009). China’s rise in the world ICT industry : industrial strategies and the catch-up development model. Routledge

One of the most striking phenomena of China’s remarkable economic growth is that its huge volume of exports are becoming high-tech. China is now the world's largest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) exporter, having overtaken Japan and t... Read More about China’s rise in the world ICT industry : industrial strategies and the catch-up development model.

State-led Catching up Strategies and Inherited Conflicts in Developing the ICT Industry: Behind the US - East Asia Semiconductor Disputes (2008)
Journal Article
Ning, L. (2008). State-led Catching up Strategies and Inherited Conflicts in Developing the ICT Industry: Behind the US - East Asia Semiconductor Disputes. Global Economic Review, 37(2), 265-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/12265080802021243

Moving from labour to some capital and knowledge intensive sectors, East Asian countries have actively pursued strategic industrial policies and successfully promoted targeted sectors. However, their growth in high tech sectors challenged the US lead... Read More about State-led Catching up Strategies and Inherited Conflicts in Developing the ICT Industry: Behind the US - East Asia Semiconductor Disputes.

Economic Liberalisation for High-Tech Industry Development? Lessons from China’s Response in Developing the ICT Manufacturing Sector compared with the Strategies of Korea and Taiwan (2007)
Journal Article
Ning, L. (2007). Economic Liberalisation for High-Tech Industry Development? Lessons from China’s Response in Developing the ICT Manufacturing Sector compared with the Strategies of Korea and Taiwan. The Journal of Development Studies, 43(3), 562-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380701204547

This paper argues that China's response to economic liberalisation, which artificially focuses on promoting particular sizes of firms, cannot improve technological capabilities in the ICT manufacturing industry. Not only have historical and economic... Read More about Economic Liberalisation for High-Tech Industry Development? Lessons from China’s Response in Developing the ICT Manufacturing Sector compared with the Strategies of Korea and Taiwan.

How Can the Role of the State in Economic Development Cause Conflicts during Globalisation? The Inevitable US-China Semiconductor Trade Dispute in Comparison with the NIE Experiences (2006)
Journal Article
Ning, L. (online). How Can the Role of the State in Economic Development Cause Conflicts during Globalisation? The Inevitable US-China Semiconductor Trade Dispute in Comparison with the NIE Experiences. Journal of globalization for the common good,

This short paper concerns how the role of the state in economic development can cause conflicts during globalisation. By examining the trade disputes between four East Asian countries (Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China), and the US over semiconductors,... Read More about How Can the Role of the State in Economic Development Cause Conflicts during Globalisation? The Inevitable US-China Semiconductor Trade Dispute in Comparison with the NIE Experiences.