China's manufacturing and innovation capabilities are directly related. Availability of complementary resources in rapid prototyping, test production and components and the ability to deploy innovations at scale increasingly leads high-technology firms, including startups, to consider China as a...

Resource Dependency Theory (RDT) and Global Value Chain (GVC) theory have been deployed in the strategic and international management literatures to address questions of power in dyadic relationships and global production networks, respectively. This paper integrates the two theoretical...