China's Innovation Challenge

Arie Y. Lewin is Professor Emeritus of Strategy and International Business at Duke University, North Carolina and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Management and Organization Review. His research focuses on organization adaption and renewal, co-evolution, and the globalization of innovation. Martin Kenney is a Professor at the University of California, Davis and Senior Project Director at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. His research focuses upon entrepreneurship, venture capital, innovation and university-industry relations in Silicon Valley and East Asia. Johann Peter Murmann is Professor of Strategic Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management, part of the University of New South Wales Business School. He is a senior editor of the journal Management and Organization Review. His research focuses on the role of innovation in the development of industries.

'China's economic development was an economic miracle that only thirty years ago no one would have predicted. It has become the world's second largest economy and the world's factory. China's Innovation Challenge is an erudite and comprehensive examination of whether China can grow beyond the world's factory to become an innovative powerhouse with a large prosperous middle class. Organized as a debate among the top Chinese and Western economists and management scholars, I was fascinated by the depth of the insights and multi-faceted perspectives of the contributors. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to those interested in the future of the Chinese economy and its potential to become an innovation giant.' Richard Florida, Director of Cities, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, Global Research Professor, New York University, and Founder, Creative Class Group

• 1. China's innovation challenge: an introduction Arie Y. Lewin, Martin Kenney and Johann Peter Murmann; 2. New structural economies: the future of the Chinese economy Justin Yifu Lin; 3. Impact of China's invisible societal forces on its intended evolution Gordon Redding; 4. The road ahead for China: implications from South Korea's experience Michael A. Witt; 5. Innovation and technological specialization of Chinese industry Keun Lee; 6. China's political economy: prospects for technological innovation-based growth Douglas Fuller; 7. Transforming China's IP system to stimulate innovation Menita Liu Cheng and Can Huang; 8. Building the innovation capacity of SMEs in China John Child; 9. Who benefits when MNEs partner with local enterprises in China? Simon Collinson; 10. Advantages and challenges of Chinese MNEs in global competition Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson; 11. Emerging trends in global sourcing of innovation Silvia Massini, Keren Crispin-Wagner and Eliza Chilimoniuk-Przezdziecka; 12. Why is China failing to leapfrog India's IT outsourcing industry? Weidong Xia, Mary Ann Von Glinow and Yingxia Lia; 13. Barriers to organizational creativity in Chinese firms Zhi-Xue Zhang and Weiguo Zhong; 14. Institutional and cultural contexts of creativity and innovation in China Chi-Yue Chiu, Shyhnan Liou and Letty Y-Y. Kwan; 15. Reframing basis for cross-cultural management Rosalie L. Tung; 16. China's innovation challenge: concluding reflections Arie Y. Lewin, Martin Kenney and Johann Peter Murmann.