How the weaker china firms surpass the stronger competitors in the process of discontinuous technology change~fa case from china in vitamin industry

Abstract

In the dynamic and complex environment, technology development shows itself discontinuous. The discontinuity of technology change gives overtaking opportunity to the weaker China firms. The paper explains how the weaker China firms surpass the stronger competitors in the discontinuous technology change. The continuous technology is path dependence. Therefore, the stronger firms have distinctive advantage for innovation in the continuous technology change. But for the weaker, it is pity. While in the discontinuous technology change, the capability that the stronger firms have become obstacle for the new technology development. Compared with the weaker firms, the stronger firms don’t have distinctive advantage. This gives the opportunity for the weaker firms to surpass. In order to improve the competition for China firms, it is necessary to pay more attention to the discontinuous technology change, introduce a new technology in the industry, destroy the old technology development track and create a new technology development path. The paper makes use of a case to explain how a weak China firm surpasses the international corporation. This case is representative for foreigners to understand how the China firms surpass the international corporations and supplies a mode for weaker firm to advance. Moreover from that you can know why the economic growth rate of China is so fast.