Chinese Textile Industry Research Articles

Do Local Institutions Affect All Foreign Investors in the Same Way? Evidence from the Interwar Chinese Textile Industry

This article analyzes the impact of employment institutions on Japanese-, British-, and Chinese-owned textile firms in China during the 1920s and 1930s. Despite Britain's domestic position as a world productivity leader, Japanese firms enjoyed a 70 percent productivity advantage over both British and Chinese competitors. The divergent performance of Japanese and British investments in China is explained by differences in management practice. Japanese firms had domestic experience with employment institutions similar to China's and applied labor management strategies that functioned well under these institutions. British firms lacked the institutional experience necessary to adapt management strategies to Chinese institutions.

An Investigation of Chinese Textile Firms’ R&D Performance

The purpose of this study was to enhance the understanding of Chinese textile manufacturers' research and development (R&D) performance. Specifically, the study empirically examined (a) current trends of R&D activities in the Chinese textile industry; (b) R&D intensity among Chinese textile firms and determinants of its variation; and (c) R&D effectiveness among Chinese textile firms and factors impacting it. The research results are based on survey data from 768 textile manufacturers located in a Southeastern County with a mature textile and apparel cluster. Logistic regression was employed for data analyses. The results showed that R&D investment levels among Chinese textile firms are relatively low in comparison with advanced textile industries in developed countries. Chinese textile firms with international operations had a higher R&D intensity, or investment level, than those without international operations. Foreign ownership and financial resources were not significant predictors of the firm's R&D intensity. Chinese textile firms that relied on acquiring new machinery/technology and were involved in internal R&D activities were more likely to have higher R&D effectiveness, which translated into positive profit margin. The R&D intensity did not contribute significantly to R&D effectiveness. To offset increasing production cost and sustain its diminishing low-cost comparative advantage, the Chinese textile industry's next step is to focus on R&D. The study offers strategic directions to the industry and policy makers that might be helpful to keep the industry competitive in the global marketplace.

The Research on the Promotion Mechanism of Textile Industry’s Energy Saving and Emission Reduction - From the Perspective of Industry Regulation

Chinese textile industry’s energy saving and emission reduction has become the crucial matter of sustainable development. On the condition of market economy, there are market failures in the fields of energy saving and emission reduction. This text in the view of the economics’ characteristic on energy saving and emission reduction, analyze the mechanism of the industry regulation to solve this problem and conceive the mechanism to regulate the energy saving and emission reduction.

Building a sustainable supply chain: an analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in the Chinese textile and apparel industry

This study aims to analyze the development, achievements, and challenges of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in the Chinese textile and apparel industry. The determinants of CSR movement in the industry are discussed. The World Bank CSR Diamond Model based on stakeholder theory provides an analytical framework to address this complex issue in a systematic way. The relevant information and data were gathered from an extensive literature review of governmental, industrial and academic publications, and interviews. Overall, the tightening legal environment for CSR development has raised the cost of doing business in China in a short time. While forward‐looking companies are already taking CSR into account in their daily operations and strategic plans, some resistance to the execution and enforcement of CSR‐related laws and regulations have been witnessed. However, from a long‐term perspective, the CSR movement will benefit towards upgrading the industry and the healthy growth of China's economy, and contribute to the sustainable global textile and apparel supply chain.

Analysis of the Development Trend of Chinese Textile Industry Based on Growth Curve Model

Growth-curve models are generalized multivariate analysis-of-variance models. This kind of method was widely used in the prediction of industry development cycle. The textile industry occupies an important position in the national economy of China. The paper analyzed the development trend of Chinese textile industry based on growth curve model and found out that Chinese textile industry is in the formative stage and is about to begin entered into matured period. The next five years the average annual growth rate of Chinese textile industry can reach more than 9 percent, and the textile industry output will reach 6 trillions in 2015.

Rising Labor Cost and the Comparative Advantage of Chinese Textile Industry Analysis

The textile industry is a typical labor-intensive industry, which is also one of the most comparative advantage industries of China. However, with rising labor cost in recent years, the comparative advantage of Chinese textile industry is facing challenges. Based on the theory of comparative advantage analysis, this article analyzes of the comparative advantages of Chinese textile industry based on the background of rising labor cost while propose that Chinese textile industry shall transfer the Comparative Advantage to Competitive Advantage.

Diversification and Performance of Group-Affiliated Firms during Institutional Transitions: The Case of the Chinese Textile Industry

Problem statement: Business groups play significant roles and evolve with the changing institutional environments in many emerging Asian economies. A study of how the institutional transition and the resultant ‘institutionally rooted evolution’ of business groups affect the diversification outcomes of affiliated firms will therefore help to deepen our understanding of this unique organizational form. Approach: This study uses the 2001-2005 data on listed firms from the Chinese textile industry and estimates the diversification effects of all firms in the sample and the differences in the diversification effects between group-affiliated firms and their stand-alone counterparts. Results: A positive relationship is found between the listed textile firms’ unrelated diversification and their firm value during the period 2001-2005. Furthermore, the results indicate that group affiliation has complicated impacts on the diversification-performance relationship of the listed firms. Although group-affiliated firms are more successful in pursuing unrelated diversification when compared with stand-alone firms, such a difference in performance outcomes is statistically weak (as measured by Tobin’s Q). Furthermore, it is found that group-affiliated firms perform related diversification worse than their stand-alone counterparts (as measured by both ROA and Tobin’s Q). Conclusion: At late stages of the institutional transition, as in China at present, the dominant influence of institutional environments on the diversification-performance link of firms still works and motivates business groups to evolve organizationally. Such an organizational evolution has complex implications for group-affiliated firms’ diversification: the weak performance advantage from unrelated diversification suggests that business groups’ organizational evolution may contribute to the persistence of the comparative strength of business groups’ internal markets; the concurrent low outcomes from related diversification however suggests that the organizational evolution disrupts the interrelations inside the group unavoidably and therefore hurts the fundamental foundation for the realization of related diversification’s value-creation tendency.

Diversification and Performance of Group-Affiliated Firms during Institutional Transitions: The Case of the Chinese Textile Industry

Diversification and Performance of Group-Affiliated Firms during Institutional Transitions: The Case of the Chinese Textile Industry

Australian fashion designers: the potential nexus with China

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how Australian fashion designers perceive the impact and opportunities offered by the Chinese textile and clothing industry.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research design used personally administered, semi‐structured interviews. A purposeful sample used interviewees drawn from proactive fashion business owners. The sample covered four clothing categories. Thematic data analysis was used, and data integrity was assured, using well‐recognised techniques including triangulation and constant comparison.FindingsThe Queensland fashion designers are experiencing significant impacts from the current economic and manufacturing situations and the challenges presented by developments in China. They respond to their operational concerns, but do not deal strategically with contemporary challenges. They are unaware of opportunities that the Chinese textile and clothing industry offers, struggling with a global perspective. Although they are aware of issues with intellectual property, they have little experience in protecting their intangible assets.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research could link the proposed scenario building with interviews, to develop an even more robust research design. Extensions to other Asia Pacific countries could reveal common issues and any unique perspectives.Practical implicationsApplication of the proposed model and the pursuit of the scenarios for future development could assist fashion designers in the formation of a sense of community. A return to craftsmanship could nurture the local fashion design community, and create offshore links and relationships, facilitated by technology.Originality/valueThe empirical study proposes a new model, suggesting approaches and solutions, not previously considered in the context of fashion designers and their opportunities in doing business with China.

Profitability and Productivity of the Chinese Textile Industry

AbstractThis paper considers the cost structure, profitability and productivity of the Chinese textile industry and estimates the impacts of RMB appreciation on this industry. Using data for 1999–2006, we found that the industry has suffered from very low profit margins and returns on capital. Because input prices have been increasing, particularly since 2001, generating profits has become more difficult for the industry. Nevertheless, the industry achieved substantial productivity growth over the period examined. Although at an inadequate level, the profitability of the industry did show some signs of improvement. As long as this trend continues, the industry could obtain a decent level of profitability. Since 2005, however, the industry has faced a new challenge: the appreciation of the RMB. Based on 2006 data, we estimated the maximum rate of RMB appreciation that the industry would be able to sustain to be approximately 5 percent a year.

Export Conditions of the Chinese Textile Industry: An Analysis in Comparison with Selected ASEAN Countries

This paper provides a comprehensive and disaggregated set of elasticity estimates, to date, in the face of MFA abolishment. The estimates made here are at a detailed level of disaggregation and should provide researchers with opportunities for future analysis. We used the gravity model to estimate the trade elasticity of China’s apparel cottons in the US market for the period between 1989 and 2009. From the gravity model, two phenomena are observed. First, there exists a unique long-run equilibrium relationship among the import quantity demand, the import price and the US GDP per capita. Second, import price and income elasticity are significant with the expected signs, conditions of which are significant for performing trade—policy analyses.

Under the New Situation of the Textile Economy

China's entry into the WTO, all the textiles with the formal abolition of restrictions on Chinese textile and garment industry entered the free trade era, the increasingly fierce international competition, but also brought unprecedented opportunities to the Chinese textile and apparel industry. China's textile and garment industry required in this particular under the new situation to meet the challenges and seize the opportunity to be successful. Under the new situation China's textile and garment industry facing difficulties and the opportunities this article will do a specific analysis and put forward some feasible options for enterprises to adopt.

Occupational risk factors for nasopharyngeal cancer among female textile workers in Shanghai, China

Aims: To investigate whether occupational exposure to dusts and chemicals in the Chinese textile industry are associated with risk of nasopharyngeal cancer. Methods: Sixty seven nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) cases identified...

Does WTO accession matter for the Chinese textile and clothing industry?

Based on field surveys conducted in Guangdong, Zhejiang and Beijing in 2000 and 2001, this paper argues that accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by China will create a new competitive arena for different categories of textile and clothing firms located in that country, partly dependent on the size and ownership of the firm. From the perspectives of reducing import tariffs, eliminating export quotas and the regulations on trade disputes, WTO accession does matter for the majority of Chinese firms in this ‘win–lose’ game. From the perspective of compliance with international standards, this paper argues that accession to the WTO does not really matter for some Chinese firms, as they may not survive the intense competition prior to 2005, when the effects of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing materialise.

Recent Situation of Chinese Textile Industry

Recent Situation of Chinese Textile Industry

The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War

Part 1: TRADE AND THE TRADITIONAL ECONOMY The Japanese Trading World Before 1853 and the First Trade with Europeans The West and Japan before the Opening of the Ports Kaikoku: the Opening of Japan Early Meiji Modernisation and the Development of the Traditional Export Sector. Part 2: JAPAN'S ENTRY INTO THE MODERN WORLD TRADING SYSTEM Growth and Transformation in Japan's Trade and Payments, 1890-1937 The Role of Public Policy The Private Sector Achieving International Competitiveness in Cotton Textiles, 1914-37. Part 3: THE TRANSFORMATION OF TECHNOLOGY Building the Technological Infrastructure Technology and Trade in the Strategic Industries Technology and Trade in the Commercial Sector. Part 4: WAR, EMPIRE AND THE GLOBALISATION OF TRADE The Imperial Background and the Role of Taiwan The Economic Expansion of Japan in Manchuria Japan's Trade and Direct Investment in the Chinese Textile Industry.

最近の中国繊維工業の概況

最近の中国繊維工業の概況

Female Chinese Textile Workers: Their Attitude towards and Actual Participation in Physical Activities

Purpose of this study was to provide the necessary information for an improved physical education of female workers in the Chinese textile industry. 1035 women at 52 textile factories were furnished with questionnaires. The findings of the survey show that the respondents are interested and hope to participate in a broad range of physical activities. However, the extent of actual involvement in the various activities does not match the interest expressed, as it only amounts to 4.44%. Seven factors were ascertained that negatively affect involvement in physical activities.

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE CHINESE TEXTILE INDUSTRY, 1950–72

The Developing EconomiesVolume 13, Issue 1 p. 66-81 Free Access TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE CHINESE TEXTILE INDUSTRY, 1950–72 E. K. Y. CHEN, E. K. Y. CHENSearch for more papers by this authorR. HSIA, R. HSIASearch for more papers by this author E. K. Y. CHEN, E. K. Y. CHENSearch for more papers by this authorR. HSIA, R. HSIASearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1975 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1049.1975.tb00343.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume13, Issue1March 1975Pages 66-81 ReferencesRelatedInformation