An Evaluation Study of the Capabilities of Civilian Manufacturing Enterprises Entering the Military Products Market under the Background of China’s Civil–Military Integration

Jianzhong Xu,Song Zhang

doi:10.3390/su12062416

Abstract

As the Chinese government has clearly put forward the development of civil–military integration (CMI) as a national strategy, civilian manufacturing enterprises entering the military products market (CMEE-MPM) can effectively improve China’s national defense science and technology capabilities and can also be an effective way for enterprises to enhance their sustainable development capabilities. However, due to the high standards and strict requirements of the national defense industry for supplier review, civilian manufacturing enterprises must evaluate their CMEE-MPM capabilities. In this study, a new evaluation and consideration model is proposed. Enterprises that plan to enter the military product market can use this model to evaluate their own CMEE-MPM capabilities. The evaluation model framework is composed of three successive parts: constructing an evaluation indicator system according to experts and enterprise experiences, calculating the weight of the indicators using an analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and evaluating CMEE-MPM capabilities using the method of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. Finally, this study verifies the feasibility of the application of the above model by measuring the capabilities of a civilian manufacturing enterprise that wants to enter the military products market in Harbin, China. The results show that the indicator system constructed in this paper can effectively evaluate CMEE-MPM capabilities. The findings of this research can be used as a reference for the decision making of civilian manufacturing enterprises regarding whether or not to enter the military products market, and then promote the sustainable development of enterprises.

Highlights

Civilian enterprises are an important part of China’s national economy and the most active economic growth point in the national economy
The sustainable development of an enterprise is a process where by an enterprise seeks the means for its own survival and permanent development
Enterprise decisionmakers should consider the realization of its own business objectives and the needs of future development. This paper provides both a direction of enterprise development for enterprise decisionmakers and a method to identify the influencing factors of enterprise sustainable development for enterprise decisionmakers

Summary

Introduction

Civilian enterprises are an important part of China’s national economy and the most active economic growth point in the national economy. Before civilian manufacturing enterprises decide whether to participate in the national defense industry, they must evaluate their civilian manufacturing enterprises entering the military products market (CMEE-MPM) capabilities. These enterprises can conduct such an evaluation in one of two ways—the first is to find a third-party consulting agency to conduct the evaluation, but the economic costs of this approach are very high, and most enterprises do not want to bear such costs; the second is self-evaluation, which is more popular with civilian manufacturing enterprises, but there is no set evaluation model framework to provide services for civilian manufacturing enterprises. The evaluation model framework in this paper can solve the problems faced by civilian manufacturing enterprises

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