Manufacturing Industry In China Research Articles

Environmental innovation ambidexterity and customer relationship performance: evidence from the manufacturing industry in China.

Cleaner production and pollution prevention are not only essential for enterprises to improve resource utilization efficiency and competitiveness, but also realistic requirements for enterprises to comply with green manufacturing policies and regulations. Many previous studies have investigated the impacts of environmental innovation on products and environmental performance, but few of them have explored the impact of environmental innovation on customer relationships. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the basic strategies to enhance customer relationship in the context of green development. Building upon the resource-based view, the dynamic capability perspective, and the upper echelons theory, this study develops a conceptual model focusing on the effects of environmental innovation ambidexterity (EIA) on customer relationship performance (CRP), the mediating effects of green product innovation (GPI), and the moderating role of top management's environmental awareness. The results of a survey of 285 high-tech manufacturing enterprises in China show that EIA has a positive effect on CRP. The results of the study also indicate that GPI mediates the relationship between EIA and CRP, and top management's environmental awareness moderates the impact of EIA on CRP. The results offer novel insights for suppliers to improve CRP, and provide theoretical guidance for high-tech manufacturing enterprises to effectively implement pollution prevention and GPI.

High-tech production: the basis for the modernization of China's manufacturing industry

High-tech production: the basis for the modernization of China's manufacturing industry

The role of environmental transformational leadership in employees’ influencing organizational citizenship behavior for environment well-being: a survey data analysis

Many researchers and intellectuals focused on the topic of organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE); however, employees' pro-environmental behaviors, such as eco-helping, eco-civic engagement, and eco-initiatives, are often being ignored. Also, the investigation of the stimulating factors behind these behaviors remains weak. Hence, this research aims to explore the role of environmental transformational leadership (ELT) in these three types of organizational citizen behaviors for the environment (OCBE) considering the indirect effects of psychological empowerment and leader-member exchange (LMX). We examined the effects of meditation by using four steps for mediation analysis and the Sobel test. Chi-square (χ2) tests for observing the difference were also applied. The results from a survey of 500 employees from the manufacturing industry in China provide that environmental transformational leadership contributes indirectly and directly to promoting environmental behavior within organizations due to the inspirational nature of transformational leaders. Furthermore, the intentions of employees for organizational environmental behavior stimulate on account of a high sense of leader-member exchange and psychological empowerment. Based on these findings, the study suggests that leadership in organizations should facilitate their employees with psychological empowerment and sharing of information and initiative regarding the environment for boosting OCBE. It is also recommended that at the time of recruitment and selection of employees, they should be given orientations regarding environmental protection and resource conservation. Moreover, organizations should promote the transformational style of leadership to achieve environment-related goals.

Evaluation of Employee Empowerment on Taking Charge Behaviour: An Application of Perceived Organizational Support as a Moderator.

PurposeBased on trait activation theory, this study validates the boundary effect of perceived organizational support (POS) on employee empowerment (EE) to sustain employee’s taking charge behaviour (TCB). It hypothesizes that EE has a strongly significant and positive relationship with TCB when POS is high.MethodologyThe authors selected a time-lagged cross-sectional study and collected data from two sources in manufacturing firms in China where 290 team members and 56 supervisors participated in the survey. In a questionnaire, team members self-reported employee empowerment, taking charge behaviour, and perceived organizational support, whereas supervisors rated employees’ taking charge behaviour at individual-level to avoid common method bias. In addition, for meeting the study objectives statistically, we used SPSS-Process Macro for hypotheses testing.FindingsThe study findings were significant, in which employee empowerment demonstrated positive relationship with TCB under the boundary condition of POS but under low POS. This empirical result endorses that employee empowerment accelerated by perceptions of low organizational support demonstrates a positive impact on the development of taking charge behaviour.Practical ImplicationsReceivers’ reactions to organizational support are not constantly positive; sometimes, they might feel vulnerable or incapable, and sometimes “overhelped”. Our study outcomes extend these streams of work by concentrating on support from the organization and authenticating an exclusive outline associating employee empowerment with perceived organizational support on employee’s taking charge behaviour- specifically organizations might, rather counterintuitively, attain greater levels of empowered employee’s taking charge behaviour by delivering less is more-oriented organizational support programs. More specifically, it is not always high, but sometimes low POS performs as a resilient situational factor or contextual moderator that is capable of activating and encouraging employee empowerment on their taking charge behaviour.Originality/ValueThis study highlights the importance of taking charge as trait-relevant behaviour by empowered employees (a trait in our case) and organizational support as a trait-relevant cue for sustainable performance in the manufacturing industry of China.

Servicification and global value chain upgrading: empirical evidence from China’s manufacturing industry

We investigate the effect of servicification on global value chain (GVC) upgrading within the context of China’s manufacturing industry. Utilising comprehensive data on manufacturing value-added, we present new evidence for the influence of servicification on the GVC position of the manufacturing industry in China. We find that although domestic and aggregate servicification enhances GVC, foreign servicification curtails the GVCs of manufacturing firms. Our results show that foreign direct investment, capital intensity and institutions are GVC enhancing. At the same time, the increased global market share of the Chinese manufacturing industry has reduced the GVC of manufacturing firms in China. From a policy perspective, the results highlight the need to take cognisance of the heterogeneity of manufacturing firms and the impact of domestic and foreign servicification on the GVC of manufacturing firms in China. Highlights Total servicification and domestic servicification enhanced the GVC position of Chinese manufacturing industry. Foreign servicification worsened the GVC position of Chinese manufacturing industry. Foreign direct investment, capital intensity and institutions are GVC-enhancing, while increased global market share is GVC-impeding. The GFC exacerbated the adverse impact of foreign servicification on the GVC position of Chinese manufacturing industry.

Influence of Environmentally Specific Transformational Leadership on Employees’ Green Innovation Behavior—A Moderated Mediation Model

Ecological environment issues put forward higher requirements for enterprises to undertake environmental responsibility. Therefore, how to encourage employees’ green innovation behavior (EGIB) is of great significance for enterprises to practice green development. Based on the social exchange theory, this study constructs a moderating mediation model to explain the influence of environmentally specific transformational leadership (ESTL) on EGIB, in which green organization identity (GOI) and environmental commitment (EC) are used as mediators and the supervisor’s organizational embodiment (SOE) is used as a moderator. Data collected from 297 employees of the manufacturing industry in China are used for empirical analysis. Results show that (a) ESTL positively affects EGIB, (b) both GOI and EC mediate the positive relationship between ESTL and EGIB, (c) the path of GOI—EC mediates the positive relationship between ESTL and EGIB, and (d) SOE positively moderates the indirect effect of ESTL on EGIB through GOI and EC, and SOE moderates the indirect effect of ESTL on EGIB through the path of GOI—EC. Theoretical contributions, practical implications, and future research are also discussed.

Research on the impact mechanism of green finance on the green innovation performance of China's manufacturing industry

This paper constructs the relationship model diagram of green finance, technology finance and supply chain finance, and the conceptual model diagram of the impact mechanism of Green Finance on green innovation performance of manufacturing industry. Using the relevant statistical data indicators of China's manufacturing industry from 2011 to 2018, the structural equation model is used for empirical test. The results show that green finance has a positive impact on the green innovation performance of manufacturing industry. Technology finance has a positive regulating impact on green finance and manufacturing green innovation performance, while supply chain finance has no significant regulating impact.

Green supply chain management for a more sustainable manufacturing industry in China: a critical review

Green supply chain management for a more sustainable manufacturing industry in China: a critical review

Effect of input servitization on carbon mitigation: evidence from China's manufacturing industry.

Manufacturing servitization, a new industrial form that integrates manufacturing and service, promotes not only high-quality economic development but also carbon mitigation. By employing the panel data of 14 manufacturing sectors and 17 service sectors from 1995 to 2009 in China, this study sheds light on the effect of manufacturing input servitization on carbon reduction. Results show that input servitization reduces carbon intensity. In terms of the manufacturing heterogeneity, the carbon abatement effect of input servitization in pollution-intensive sectors is greater than that in non-pollution sectors; with respect to the service heterogeneity, more emphasis shall be placed on transportation and business services among all manufacturing industries to curb carbon emissions. Furthermore, the mechanism analysis demonstrates that input servitization reduces carbon intensity by substituting energy elements, promoting technological innovation, and optimizing structure. These conclusions reveal that increasing the level of input servitization helps to coordinate manufacturing industry's development with carbon abatement commitmentin China.

The Development of the Digital Economy and the Improvement of Manufacturing Efficiency

The manufacturing industry is the main battlefield for China’s development of digital economy, the digital economy is an important driving force for the transformation of China's manufacturing industry from rigid processing to flexible manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing, and China's manufacturing industry has good development opportunities under the current digital economy background. This paper constructs a panel dataset based on the data of 1334 manufacturing listed companies and the development of digital economy at the prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2019, with a total of 12,006 observations, to explore the relationship between the development of the digital economy and the efficiency improvement of the manufacturing industry. The research results show that the vigorous development of the digital economy has a positive role in promoting the efficiency improvement of the manufacturing industry.

Regional differences of high-quality development level for manufacturing industry in China.

The development of China's manufacturing industry is still facing the challenge of regional imbalance. To solve the problem of development imbalance, it is necessary to realize regional development. First, we must analyze the development characteristics of different regions. To this end, we consider the requirements of the new development era and design an evaluation index system for the high-quality development level of the manufacturing industry from the dimensions of innovation, green, and efficiency. Then construct a novel hybrid model which combines the grey incidence clustering model and AP algorithm for panel data in this paper. According to the statistical data from 2014 to 2018, we find out the high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry is characterized by obvious regional differences, different development stages and different constraints.

A study of job insecurity and life satisfaction in COVID-19: the multilevel moderating effect of perceived control and work–life balance programs

Background: The effect of COVID-19 on the manufacturing industry in China has resulted in increased employee psychological pressure and job insecurity. This study uses a theoretical model to identify the links between job insecurity and life satisfaction, and further explores the multilevel moderating effect underlying these links. Methods: Based on the conservation of resources theory, a hierarchical linear model is utilized to test the relationships among cross-level variables. The data comprises 528 valid questionnaires from 43 manufacturing companies in China. Results: The research results show that both perceived control (individual level) and work–life balance programs (organizational level) positively moderate the relationship between job insecurity and life satisfaction. Conclusions: This study contributes toward identifying the effect of employees’ psychological status and job insecurity on life satisfaction, and further confirms two different level moderators that alleviate the negative relationship between job insecurity and life satisfaction. Whether different genders have an effect on perception of life satisfaction is also considered, and the results show that men perceive significantly greater life satisfaction than women. Finally, based on the research findings, practical and theoretical implications are proposed.

Analysis of the Impact of Technological Innovation on Export Trade of Manufacturing Enterprises

The manufacturing industry undoubtedly occupies an important position in the development of the country. This paper discusses the development of manufacturing industry from the perspective of identifying problems, analyzing them and solving them. The article combines the relevant theories of international trade with China's technological innovation and manufacturing exports, and analyzes the mechanism of technological innovation's influence on China's manufacturing industry and the magnitude of its role. It aims to conclude with recommendations that can be drawn upon.

The Coupling Synergistic Effect Analysis of Global Value Chain Embedding and Carbon Emission Reduction in China

The upgrading of global value chain and carbon emission reduction are the dual challenges faced by China's manufacturing industry. In order to achieve the goal of advancing to the middle and high end of global value chain and "dual carbon", at the same time to achieve the win-win situation of global value chain embedded and carbon emission reduction, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to play the coupling and coordination role of the two. Based on the theory of coupling coordination, this paper constructs the evaluation index system of global value chain embedded and carbon emission reduction system, and analyzes the development status of global value chain embedded and carbon emission reduction in 21 sub-sector industries from 2005 to 2014. The results show that most industries are in the moderate coordination stage, and the lag of global value chain is the key factor restricting their coordinated development. Labor-intensive industries have the best coupling coordination degree, forming a situation of mutual promotion of development, followed by technologyintensive industries and labor-intensive industries. Therefore, improving the level of green technology, breaking through the technological blockade and improving the position of Chinese industries in the global value chain are conducive to forming a positive interaction between the two.

Research on Mechanism and Path of High- Quality Development of China's Manufacturing Industry

Promoting high-quality development of manufacturing is not only an important part of promoting highquality economic development, but also an inevitable requirement for deepening supply-side structural reform, as well as an objective requirement for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country. The three driving mechanisms to achieve high-quality development of manufacturing industry are innovation drive, structure optimization and efficiency support. The path to high-quality development of the manufacturing lies in encouraging enterprise innovation; promoting supply-side structural reform; highlighting integrated industrial development; promoting smart manufacturing with the development of the digital economy; accelerating the integration of industrial chains.

RESEARCH ON THE UPGRADING PATH OF CHINA'S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GLOBAL VALUE CHAINZHANG

Since joining the world trade organization, China has not only become the largest exporter and trading country in the world, but also one of the countries with the largest increase in the participation of global value chains. However, China's manufacturing industry is facing the situation of transformation and upgrading and is in urgent need of leaping to the high end of the global value chain. Aiming at solving this problem, this essay focused on the study from available literature, data, and reports from various media and CNKI, used Global Value Chain and Digital Economy as the framework to search relevant issues and contribute to how to solve the problem. The results show that the following two ways may be helpful for China to upgrade its manufacturing industry: 1. Promote service-oriented industries; 2. Improve the imbalance of industry supply and demand; 3. Reduce the international dependence.

Does digital technology promote the sustainable development of the marine equipment manufacturing industry in China?

Along with the rapid development of information and communication technology, the digital economy has affected all industries and digital trade has become the main way of international trade. This paper adopts an entropy weight method to measure the sustainable development of the Marine Equipment Manufacturing Industry (MEMI), developing an econometric model with the digital trade as a mediating effect to investigate how digital technology promotes the sustainable development of MEMI. After reviewing the sustainable development performance of 11 coastal provinces in China from 2006 to 2016, this paper reveals their regional heterogeneity and shows that digital technology has greatly promoted the sustainable development of China's MEMI. Digital technology has a positive impact on China's MEMI and Digital trade plays a part in the mediating effect. China's MEMI lacks high-end professional and technical personnel in general, but the application of digital technology is unbalanced and inadequate across regions, which is grouped into three echelons. Digital technology is fully developed in the first and second echelon, and digital trade has an obvious mediating effect in the first echelon. In the third echelon, digital technology is applied slowly and the digital trade has produced a masking effect. In light of the position of MEMI in the view of the value chain, the regional authorities should adopt proper policies according to their conditions.

The investigation of sustainable environmental performance of manufacturing companies: mediating role of organizational support and moderating role of CSR

China is transitioning towards green and sustainable manufacturing, considering environmental measures as per external environment demands. This research investigates the impact of green entrepreneurial orientation, social entrepreneurship, and organizational ambidexterity on sustainable environmental performance. Besides, examining the mediating role of organizational support and moderating the role of corporate social responsibilities (CSR) are also included in the aim of this research. The present study has used quantitative data of 510 respondents from China's manufacturing industry; further structural equation modelling (SEM) was employed to analyse the data. The results revealed that organizational ambidexterity, green entrepreneurial orientation, and social entrepreneurship are positively associated with sustainable environmental performance. Organizational support positively mediates among the nexus of green entrepreneurial orientation, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable environmental performance. The findings also showed that CSR significantly moderates the relationship between organizational support and sustainable environmental performance. These outcomes provide various implications for policymakers while making policies regarding CSR and sustainable environmental performance.

Research on Industry Difference and Convergence of Green Innovation Efficiency of Manufacturing Industry in China Based on Super-SBM and Convergence Models

To accurately grasp the current situation of green innovation efficiency in the manufacturing industry in China, this paper analyzes the differences and convergence characteristics of green innovation efficiency in various industries. Based on the panel data of 29 manufacturing industries in China from 2010 to 2019, the super-slack-based measure (Super-SBM) model measures the green innovation efficiency of manufacturing industries whose evolution characteristics are classified and analyzed from the perspective of technical demand. The Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition method indicates the source of industry differences in green innovation efficiency of the manufacturing industry in China with its convergence characteristics analyzed from the time dimension by constructing σ and β convergence models. The results reveal the improvement of green innovation efficiency of the Chinese manufacturing industry with obvious distinctions among different sectors and the industries with high green innovation efficiency, mostly high-end technology ones. The narrowing overall difference of green innovation efficiency in the manufacturing industry is accompanied by the lowest contribution rate of super-variable density, with the disparities between groups being the main source. It also shows the fluctuation of the intermittent σ convergence characteristics of the national manufacturing industry as a whole and low-end and high-end technology industry groups. However, the entire manufacturing industry and the three groups witness the absolute β convergence trend, with an ununiform convergence rate. The research will provide a reference for further upgrading the efficiency of green innovation in the industry and help to achieve the goals of carbon emission reduction and neutrality with the policy implications for promoting high-quality development of the manufacturing industry.

Research on Regional Differentiation Effect of Manufacturing Intelligence on the Optimization Manufacturing Structure

With the popularity of intelligent application, the intellectualization has important strategic value to transform our country to a manufacturer of quality. As high-end, intelligent, green service-oriented manufacturing industry has become the main development direction of manufacturing, the intelligence upgrading of traditional industry is of great urgency. However, the growth of manufacturing in different regions of our countries has not been uniform, so the level of intelligence development of manufacturing industry in different regions also varies greatly. In this context, how to give full play to the influence of manufacturing intelligence on the optimization of manufacturing structure has become the key content to realize the high-quality development of manufacturing industry. In view that there are fewer path research results of manufacturing intelligence on the optimization of manufacturing structure currently, this paper taking the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions as the research horizon, this paper concludes the realistic situation of the influence of the manufacturing intelligence on the optimization of manufacturing structure in different regional backgrounds, hoping to provide beneficial help for the balanced and high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry.