TY - JOUR
T1 - Tackling Chinese Upgrading through Experimentalism and Pragmatism
T2 - The Case of China’s Wind Turbine Industry
AU - Kirkegaard, Julia Kirch
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - This paper examines the development of China’s wind turbine industry, shedding light on the Chinese mode of disruptive industrial upgrading through policy pragmatism and fragmented, experimental governance. Based on a historical analysis of China’s wind turbine industry, the paper highlights three distinct phases, which are all marked by their own inbuilt and potentially self-disruptive impasses and associated crises. In turn, these impasses have forced the Chinese government into radical and flexible interventions, which have spurred on Chinese companies to creatively find new ways to develop and upgrade. The paper illustrates the transformation of Sino–foreign relations by China’s non-linear upgrading approach, particularly during the Chinese wind power industry’s quality crisis, and its development model. It also discusses the implications this examination of China’s approach has for the literatures on China, upgrading, and catch-up. Finally, the paper calls on future studies to enquire further into China’s distinct mode of industrial upgrading and its embeddedness in China’s institutional context.
AB - This paper examines the development of China’s wind turbine industry, shedding light on the Chinese mode of disruptive industrial upgrading through policy pragmatism and fragmented, experimental governance. Based on a historical analysis of China’s wind turbine industry, the paper highlights three distinct phases, which are all marked by their own inbuilt and potentially self-disruptive impasses and associated crises. In turn, these impasses have forced the Chinese government into radical and flexible interventions, which have spurred on Chinese companies to creatively find new ways to develop and upgrade. The paper illustrates the transformation of Sino–foreign relations by China’s non-linear upgrading approach, particularly during the Chinese wind power industry’s quality crisis, and its development model. It also discusses the implications this examination of China’s approach has for the literatures on China, upgrading, and catch-up. Finally, the paper calls on future studies to enquire further into China’s distinct mode of industrial upgrading and its embeddedness in China’s institutional context.
KW - China
KW - Industrial upgrading
KW - Self-disruption
KW - Wind power
KW - Policy experimentation
KW - Pragmatic governance
KW - Fragmented authoritarianism
KW - China
KW - Industrial upgrading
KW - Self-disruption
KW - Wind power
KW - Policy experimentation
KW - Pragmatic governance
KW - Fragmented authoritarianism
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U2 - 10.1177/186810261704600202
DO - 10.1177/186810261704600202
M3 - Journal article
VL - 46
SP - 7
EP - 39
JO - Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
JF - Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
SN - 1868-1026
IS - 2
ER -