1. Introduction / Franco Malerba, Sunil Mani and Pamela Adams -- 2. The rise to market leadership of Chinese leading automotive firms : a case of Geely Group from the sectoral innovation system perspective -- Bin Guo, Xiaoling Chen and Qiang Li -- 3. The Leading Chinese firms in the...

How relevant is innovation by demand compared to innovation by other actors in a sector? In quantitative terms, this is a yet unanswered question. The current study fills this major gap in the literature on industry studies. By taking a sectoral system perspective, this study is able to...

In recent years many new international market leaders from the BRICS countries have emerged in several manufacturing and service industries. This change has been associated with the rise and growth of large successful firms from these countries. How did these companies emerge and become...