Industrial Democracy in the Chinese Aerospace Industry

The Innovation Catalyst

Denise Tsang

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781137580238
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

This book provides an up-to-date insight to the many innovations of the indigenous aerospace industry from a socio-economic perspective, a final frontier of Chinese technology that will shape global competitive dynamics in the 21st century. An industry that relies on human capital to engage in concept-intensive high tech production, this book discusses the future prospect of the Chinese system within the increasing power of global firms over high tech labour. The author also introduces a systematic discussion of industrial democracy in the high tech sector within Chinese state capitalism, and compares and contrasts the Chinese model with Anglo-American and Latin European models within the aerospace industry. Utilizing original primary data, it provides a unique first-hand perspective of industrial democracy within the Chinese aerospace industry.

Table of contents

• Industrial Democracy in the Chinese Aerospace Industry
• 1 A Catalyst for Chinese Aerospace Innovation
• 2 The Entrepreneurial State in Innovation
• 3 Work Autonomy and Product Innovation
• 4 Employee Involvement in the Age of Marketization
• 5 Obsolency or Revival of Old Style Industrial Democracy
• 6 Whatever Happened to Industrial Democracy
• Author Index
• Subject Index