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The Digitization of Business in China

Exploring the Transformation from Manufacturing to a Digital Service Hub

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Investigates the main social background that has allowed for such radical changes in B2B businesses.
  • Focuses on qualitative research combined with contemporary data rather than statistical analysis, enabling readers to apply the findings to other digital business scenarios
  • Suggests future directions of research in this emerging area

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series (PAMABS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

About this book

One of the first of its kind, this book examines the digitalization of Chinese businesses both theoretically and practically. Taking a fresh and unique approach, the authors seek to adopt individual theories for each empirical case explored and investigate the dramatic digital transformation that Chinese firms have undergone in recent years. With a particular focus on social networks, the authors observe and analyze the way that digitized applications can interlink with financial systems, developing new capabilities that help to yield competitive advantage. Covering both small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and globally orientated multinational enterprises (MNEs), this book is a valuable resource for those researching Asian business, or international business more generally, as well as innovation and technology management.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

    Young-Chan Kim, Pi-Chi Chen

About the editors

Young-Chan Kim is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, UK. Having intensely researched China and the Asia Pacific region, he has co-authored and edited six books including Chinese Global Production Networks in the ASEAN (Springer, 2016) and China and Africa (Palgrave, 2017). Young-Chan has also written several articles for academic journals.

Pi-Chi Chen is a Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, UK. Her research interests include international business, strategy, multinational enterprises based in emerging markets, and regional innovation and development. She is co-author of US Firms’ Business Competence in the Taiwanese IT Industry (Springer, 2016).


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eBook USD 79.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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