Abstract: The solar photovoltaic (PV) industry has experienced great transition in the last decade captured in shifting trade flows, manufacturing loci, governmental policies, and core technologies. Our paper explores the market (competitive) and non-market (political) strategies undertaken by firms across Chinese, German and US supply chains to manage this transition. Conflicting governmental policies increase turbulence for this global industry. Firms also face industrial environments ranging from highly competitive to oligopolistic. Our analysis suggests that firms’ market and non-market strategies need co-ordination, which firms currently are not undertaking. Non-market strategies appear ad hoc and reactive after market strategies have incurred political opposition. Firms’ strategies also affect and are molded by national-competitiveness and social-welfare considerations, and we analyze some effects with regards to the USA and China.

Abstract: With the prevalent researches on platform management theory emerging from the 1990s and platform economy theory emerging recently , there are increasing platform researches nowadays. The application of platform technology to build technology platform ,which can make batch-type production and easily engender scale economy, is attached great importance by scholars. But there are few studies about third-parties and platform resources. This proposal firstly reviewed platform concepts, initially clarify platform resources into technology aspect and business aspect. Then the influences of platform resources on dynamic capacities of R&D group of third-parties was indicated. At last it gave out a preliminary concept model and variable settings about the next-step research. This research would have great significance to enterprises in China ,because most of them are third-parties living in the platform ecosystems.

Abstract: The success of firms is not only determined by their internal capabilities, but also the fact that individual firms acknowledge themselves to be a part of a business ecosystem, while being able to compete and cooperate with other ecosystem players simultaneously. In fact, firms may fail if the overall conditions of their business ecosystem deteriorate that this connected fate between the individual firms and their macro milieu signals the importance of the study of business ecosystems from a holistic perspective. The purpose of this research is to extend business ecosystem theories through exploring the strategic capabilities that enable the transformation of business ecosystems from one stage to the next along its life-cycle.

Abstract: A recent trend shows that multinational corporations (MNCs) are increasingly distributing their innovation activities towards the emerging markets such as China. Based on an empirical case study within two Chinese business units of a Swedish multinational engineering corporation, this paper attempts to explore the challenges of developing firms’ innovation capability in China. Our findings show that globally distributed R&D activities and dispersed innovation processes have resulted in an utterly complex situation. The evolutionary road towards innovating in China encounters the obstacles from: (1) lack of knowledge and experience; (2) internal competition; and (3) boundary object. In a knowledge-based view, the paper suggests knowledge sharing across intra-organizational boundaries as one of the central capability-building mechanisms for the development of MNCs’ global innovation capability.