Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259786 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] Global Networks [ISSN:] 1471-0374 [Volume:] 18 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Oxford [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 285-306
Publisher: 
Wiley, Oxford
Abstract: 
In this article we analyse the conditions for industrial upgrading in the Chinese LED industry, which proactive local state policies and expanding domestic markets have greatly facilitated. State initiatives provoked overinvestment, but eventually led to the emergence of competitive domestic enterprises. Simultaneously, firms benefited from a growing domestic market on which they outcompeted foreign companies in mid-price segments. The combination of these factors accounts for the peculiarly Chinese upgrading experience. Neither the resources provided by a new version of the ‘developmental state’ nor domestic market growth alone can explain the Chinese players' success. Based on these results, and given that the emerging economies have become the most important markets for certain consumer goods – a development that (local) industrial policies for industrial upgrading can influence – we provide further proof that it is necessary to rethink the export-led upgrading paradigm in theories of globally dispersed production.
Subjects: 
China
global commodity chains
global production networks
global value chains
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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