One of the key ingredients of success in building
internationally competitive industries lies in amassing a sizeable
pool of competent suppliers of parts, components and accessories.
This monograph examines how in developing countries suppliers of
mechanical components at the low end of the technological
trajectory build up key capabilities over time. The focus is on
Vietnam s motorcycle industry, which was rapidly transformed from a
small, highly protected market to the world s fourth largest
motorcycle producer. This rare success resulted from intense
competition between leading Japanese motorcycle manufacturers and
local Vietnamese assemblers of imported Chinese components both
attempting to gain supremacy in the emerging market.
In particular, the book analyzes how local Vietnamese suppliers
of motorcycle components exploited participation in contrasting
types of value chains developed by the two groups of leading
manufacturing firms, referred to here as Japanese and/or Vietnamese
Chinese chains, for accumulating strategic know-how. On the basis
of historical evidence and recent empirical data collected through
repeated rounds of in-depth fieldwork the analysis finds first,
those suppliers learning trajectories evolved over time resulting
in a divergence in learning performance extending across suppliers
in later phases of industrial development. In the later stage,
high-performing suppliers amassed basic innovative expertise,
constituting the bedrock of this fast-growing industry. Second, the
analysis finds that the diverging performance can be explained by
the combination of roles played by lead firms in inducing and
facilitating supplier learning and those of suppliers in mobilizing
their own sources of knowledge. These conclusions not only provide
dynamic, insightful accounts of supplier learning in developing
country contexts but also make key theoretical and methodological
contributions to the research on value chain participation and
supplier learning."
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