Chinese Automobile Research Articles

The China-Panic Drives 2015 All the Way

After massive losses of more than 30% within just three weeks, the stock markets in China recently have recovered strongly. The Beijing government had propped recently with full force against the crisis. The Central Bank pumped billions of Yuan into the market and give the investment firms additional loans. The stock market began recently with a bang. Here, the big bang did not come from Greece. China has once again pulled the stock market in the world under its spell. So the most important index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange plummeted by 8.5%. For the Shanghai Composite Index was the biggest one-day loss since the year of 2007. The question remains whether the current harassing from China has the potential to continue to exert a negative impact on other world markets? This depends certainly on the further course of the reporting season. The pace of growth in China will always continue to shrink (the more mature the market, the lower the growth rates). China remains a growth market for decades to come. Just one example: in Germany, there are 1,000 residents with around 550 cars. The Chinese car market has grown rapidly over the past decade, there come on every 1,000 inhabitants only 67 cars. Therefore, the car market in China is expected to double again. This is just one example from the Asian boom country. In this respect, the China Fantasy remains in the medium term to be strong - but in the short term, this theme, also burden the markets even further.

Chinese Automobile Preferences of Attributes at Xian Consumer: Under the Smart E-business Environments

Chinese Automobile Preferences of Attributes at Xian Consumer: Under the Smart E-business Environments

An Investigation on How Brazilian Lower Income Consumer Perceives Chinese Cars

An Investigation on How Brazilian Lower Income Consumer Perceives Chinese Cars

Research on the Problems and Countermeasures of Chinese Automobile Enterprises Transnational Merger and Acquisition

In recently years, affected by the international and domestic economic environment, Chinese automobile enterprises get really perfect time to implement cross-border mergers and acquisitions, so we can see that some Chinese automobile enterprises have already done it. At the same time we should also know there are lots of risks and problems in the process of transnational M&A, Such as political barriers, legal barriers and cultural conflicts and so on, which often do not make ideal results when they implement the M&A. At beginning of this paper will talk about the environment of Chinese automobile enterprises transnational M&A. And then on the basis of analyzing the current situation and problems of Chinese automobile enterprises transnational M&A, this paper will put forward some suggests which are appropriate for Chinese automobile enterprises.

中国における民族系自動車メーカーの「寄生的」なサプライヤー・システム:― 一汽轎車とその日系サプライヤーを事例として―

中国における民族系自動車メーカーの「寄生的」なサプライヤー・システム:― 一汽轎車とその日系サプライヤーを事例として―

A Cross-Country Comparison of Performance of Chinese and Indian Automobile Companies

Globalisation has led to a relocation of automobile manufacturing into new regions, allowing a number of emerging markets to achieve tremendous growth in automobile production and sales during the last decade. Automakers in China and India are the main beneficiaries of this shift in global automobile industry as both countries were able to increase their market share tremendously on the back of cost leadership strategy and abundant foreign direct investment (FDI). These two countries are now the fastest growing producers of automobiles in the world and accounted for almost quarter of the world’s total automobile production in 2010. This study aims to examine the operational and financial performance of the four largest automobile manufacturers in China and India through an analysis based on accounting ratios. The results of the study show that despite the fact that Indian firms have given considerable competition in recent years, Chinese automobile manufacturers have outperformed their Indian counterparts in profitability, inventory management, liquidity and solvency. This study also identifies some critical factors such as profit margin management and cost control that Indian automobile manufacturers need to address in order to outpace Chinese Automobile manufactures in the future.

중국자동차 소비자 선호도에 따른 시장점유율 예측

중국자동차 소비자 선호도에 따른 시장점유율 예측

Demand Heterogeneity, Learning Diversity and Innovation in an Emerging Economy

Abstract Prior research has shown mixed findings about the relationship between exporting and a firm's innovation performance. This study applied organizational learning theory with a demand-side perspective to explore whether the mixed findings could be due to confounding a positive effect of knowledge variety with a negative effect arising from market separation. Compared with firms with only domestic or foreign customers, firms with both types of customers have more opportunities to acquire diverse knowledge and form innovative combinations, but serving disparate customers tends to inhibit knowledge transfer, sharing and integration. Data on 8529 Chinese automobile and component manufacturers were analyzed to test these arguments, and firms competing in less separated domestic and overseas markets were found to demonstrate the best innovation performance. Firms with greater absorptive capacity were found better able to overcome the difficulties caused by market separation and enjoy more benefits from market variety.

Building Chinese Cars in Mexico: The Grupo Salinas-FAW Alliance

Ricardo Salinas Pliego was the CEO of Grupo Salinas, one of the largest business groups in Mexico, and in 2009 he faced a challenge. Two years earlier, he had negotiated with the Chinese car company FAW to import Chinese cars into Mexico as an initial step towards their manufacturing. However, the global crisis of 2008 made him question the viability of the project and he had to decide whether to close the operation or continue in the hope of a quick recovery. This was a difficult decision because the group had sold several thousand cars and established a network of car dealers. Closing the operation would mean not only losing the investment in the network while having to continue servicing the cars, but would also result in a blow to the reputation of the group. He was pondering what the best option would be.

The Development of Organizational Capabilities and Corporate Entrepreneurial Processes: The Case of Chinese Automobile Firms

Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has contributed to the rapid growth of emerging‐market firms (EMFs), yet little is known about this phenomenon from a process perspective. This article examines how EMFs develop organizational capabilities in pursuit of CE as a strategy to catch up with their global competitors. By adopting a case study method, our in‐depth analysis of two leading Chinese automobile companies identifies specific organizational capabilities that enable firms’ CE activities at different stages—initiation, development, and implementation. Our findings also reveal how different means of developing organizational capabilities lead to different catch‐up strategies, which subsequently influence firms’ entrepreneurial transformation and value creation. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

SR (Social Responsibility) Report Analysis for Chinese Automobile Makers: Comparison with Global Standard, GRI G3.1

SR (Social Responsibility) Report Analysis for Chinese Automobile Makers: Comparison with Global Standard, GRI G3.1

The Study on Fire Control Facilities Problems of Large Underground Garage

With the development of social economy, the car has been gradually into the ordinary families. Now Chinese car ownership are increasing year after year and simultaneously the shortage of parking lot are increasingly prominent, so we need to construct large underground garage to better solve the problem of parking space nervous, and then the fire safety of underground garage will be a problem. According to the characteristics of the underground garage fire, the paper analyzes the application conditions of several kinds of fire control facilities commonly used in practice and puts forward the integrated design concept of fire control system and by promoting the combined automatic sprinkling and foam system, the paper also provides some useful reference for city fire protection design of underground garage.

An Empirical Research on Fuzzy Alliance Network of Chinese Automobile Industry

The factors that influence enterprise innovation are complex and vague under the increasingly intense market competition and rapidly developed technology. Traditional social network analysis in inter-firm alliance network can not meet requirements of finding the relationship between affiliation and technological innovation precisely. To fill up this gap, in this paper we apply fuzzy theory to analysis of inter-firm alliance network by constructing alliance network using data of collaboration time span instead of binary data. Then we use fuzzy social network analysis to analyze the fuzzy centrality. By doing these analysis, we expand the research on inter-firm alliance network and give a new insight into enterprise innovation.

Research on Chinese Automobile Independent Brand Strategy

In recent years, China's auto market has continued to take over the first position in automobile production and sales in the word, the automotive industry has become an important pillar of our national economy. But foreign brands has been dominating the market in the brand, Chinese-brand cars are still going ahead with difficulties. Xu Heyi, the chairman of Beijing Automotive Group, said smoothly that there is a very important criterion to measure the world’s automotive power, that is, whether or not it owns world-class brands. In the promotion of automobile brand, we should focus on the security configuration of the car, interior space, price, comfort, environmental protection, energy-saving, after-sale service and other core elements of the brand’s planning and innovation, which is the fundamental cornerstone of the automobile brand strategy to survive and develop. We should strive to do the following: first, keep the market-driven strategy, choice the target market. Second, improve the overall quality of China's automobile by product innovation and the concept of innovation. Third, optimize brand structure, enhance the brand value, highlight the brand culture. Fourth, establish and perfect after-sales service system, foster credit system of enterprises.

Modeling, Validation and Optimization of Car Side Impact

In this paper, a passenger cars side impact CAE model was built with LS-DYNA software according to Chinese New Car Assessment Program (C-NCAP), the model was correlated very well with the test based on the data of B pillar intrusion velocity and the deformation of B-pillar and door intrusion. In order to improve the performance for side impact, the optimization proposal was provided after analyzing the results. It is showed that the side impact performance of the car was enhanced significantly after the optimization implemented.

Building Chinese Cars in Mexico: The Grupo Salinas-FAW Alliance

Ricardo Salinas Pliego was the CEO of Grupo Salinas, one of the largest business groups in Mexico, and in 2009 he faced a challenge. Two years before, he had negotiated with the Chinese car company FAW to import Chinese cars to Mexico as an initial step towards their manufacturing. However, the global crisis of 2008 made him question the viability of the project and he needed to decide whether to close the operation or continue in the hope of a quick recovery. This was a difficult decision because the group had sold several thousand cars and established a network of car dealers. Closing the operation would mean not only losing the investment in the network while having to continue servicing the cars, but would also result in a blow to the reputation of the group. He was pondering what the best option would be.

Estimation of Brand Equity in Chinese Automobile Market

Estimation of Brand Equity in Chinese Automobile Market

Innovation and Leapfrogging in the Chinese Automobile Industry: Examples from Geely, BYD and Shifeng

History provides numerous examples of incumbent market leaders being leapfrogged by newcomers that have exploited the opportunities offered by new technologies. In light of the growing number of ecological threats linked to the use of the internal combustion engine, can Chinese auto manufacturers, which are newcomers to the industry, beat out the established Japanese, European, and North American automakers in the race to produce a less environmentally damaging form of transport? Three case studies from the Chinese automobile industry reveal the different ways in which this leapfrogging might take place and highlight the impact that such developments might have on automobile manufacturers in Japan and the West, both for conventional and electric vehicles.

Innovation and Leapfrogging in the Chinese Automobile Industry: Examples From Geely, BYD, and Shifeng

AbstractHistory provides numerous examples of incumbent market leaders being leapfrogged by newcomers that have exploited the opportunities offered by new technologies. In light of the growing number of ecological threats linked to the use of the internal combustion engine, can Chinese auto manufacturers, which are newcomers to the industry, beat out the established Japanese, European, and North American automakers in the race to produce a less environmentally damaging form of transport? Three case studies from the Chinese automobile industry reveal the different ways in which this leapfrogging might take place and highlight the impact that such developments might have on automobile manufacturers in Japan and the West, both for conventional and electric vehicles. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Does Learning by Exporting Happen? Evidence from the Automobile Industry in China

AbstractThe concept that exporters learn from their exporting experience is a theoretical result that needs to be tested empirically. However, the literature provides mixed evidence. In this paper, to estimate productivity, an approach suggested by De Loecker is applied, which corrects for econometric and consistency problems. Using a dataset for the Chinese automobile between 1998 and 2007, no evidence of learning by exporting was found. The data also suggests explanations for why it does not support this hypothesis.