Trois essais sur l'intégration des réseaux et les affaires internationales: Analyse de l'industrie aérospatiale chinoise
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the relationships between the structural configurations of interorganizational networks and the internationalization strategies of enterprises in thecontext of the developing knowledge-intensive industry situated in a large emergingeconomy. Addressing the contributions to complex knowledge acquisition and socialinfluence establishment, this work specifies the multi-scopes of a firm’s embeddedness inmultiplex networks providing crucial competitive advantages. In three inter-relatedchapters, a series of empirical analyses assess the impact of network linkages, partnershipdiversity, and global value chain governance mechanisms on a firm’s networkembeddedness respectively. Based on the hand-collected network data of diverse businessrelationships among 920 economic entities (firms, universities, R&D centers,governmental authorities) that are actively engaged in the development of China’saerospace industry, this thesis presents configurations of the three production networks -multiplex national production network, horizontal collaboration sub-network, and verticalsupply chain sub-network. After calculating the centrality indicators of all embeddednetwork players and detecting their affiliation to topological communities, this thesisapplies quantitative methods to distinguish the impact of several relational and geographicdeterminants of the network embeddedness of different types of firms (foreign-basedfirms, local SMEs, foreign subsidiaries etc.). Key findings of the thesis include: (1) howestablishing vertical supplier chain relationships and horizontal collaborative partnershipscoordinates topological community formation and enables foreign-based firms to acquireinsider’s knowledge; (2) the positive relevance of partnership diversity and the networkembeddedness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in spite of their liability ofsmallness; (3) the strong dominance of original equipment manufacturers (OEM) acrossthe value chain stages, the contribution of co-location in industrial clusters to firms’proximity to the network core, and the interacting effect of liability of foreignness andregional economic development on a firm’s structural and relational embeddedness in anational production network. This thesis applies an inter-disciplinary approach combiningtheories and techniques in international business, economic geography, innovation andentrepreneurship. It characterizes the governance mechanisms of cross-border business viiinetworks and explains how various antecedents affect a firm’s network embeddednessrelated to its competitive advantages. Finally, this thesis outlines the strategic implicationsfor managerial practices and suggests future research perspectives.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".