by Fung Kwok-on, Patrick. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-195). / ABSTRACT --- p.i / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.vii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.ix / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.x / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- INTRODUCTION / Analysis of Competitiveness at Different Levels --- p.2 / Firm- in- environment --- p.6 / Cooperative Relationships Between Firms --- p.10 / Supplier Relationship as a Context of Study --- p.14 / Electronics Firms in Hong Kong as a Study Sample --- p.17 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- REVIEW OF LITERATURE / Perspectives of Environment-organisation Interface and Inter-organisational Relationship --- p.22 / Development of the Studies of Inter-organisational Relationship --- p.29 / Governance of Inter-firm Relationship --- p.34 / Cost-oriented Inter-firm Relationship --- p.34 / Structural Dependence as Governance --- p.37 / Social Governance Structure --- p.39 / "Norms, Relationalism and Relational Performance" --- p.49 / "Norms, Transorganisational Structure and Performance" --- p.54 / Supplier Relationship and Relational Performance --- p.62 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- RESEARCH DESIGN / Purpose of Study --- p.70 / Scope of the Study --- p.74 / Conceptual Framework --- p.77 / Dependent Variable --- p.77 / Explanatory Variables --- p.83 / Moderating Variables --- p.90 / Research Setting --- p.96 / Sample and Informants --- p.99 / Hypotheses --- p.105 / Measures Development --- p.117 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- DATA ANALYSIS / Measure Validations --- p.122 / Testing of Hypotheses --- p.130 / Interpretations of Findings --- p.136 / Cost and Centralisation --- p.136 / Quality and Centralisation --- p.138 / Innovation and Connectedness --- p.139 / Responsiveness and Formalisation --- p.140 / Responsiveness and Connectedness --- p.140 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- CONCLUSION / Contribution of the Study --- p.146 / Limitations --- p.150 / Future Research --- p.155 / APPENDIX A Some Data about Hong Kong's Electronics Industry --- p.158 / APPENDIX B List of Products Classified in Electronics Industry of Hong Kong (Product Code :383) --- p.160 / APPENDIX C Summary of Five Representative Company Cases in Helping to Set Hypotheses for the Study --- p.162 / "APPENDIX D Questionnaire Used for the Project ""Buyer- Seller Relationship & Relational Performance for Competitors""" --- p.168 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.177

by Wong Ka-chung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-111). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract in English / Abstract in Chinese / Acknowledgments / Tables and Figures / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Socializing Economic Transformation --- p.1 / The Puzzle: Why Frontrunner Finishes Last --- p.1 / Beyond the Myth of Free Market --- p.6 / In Search of a Social-Organizational Approach --- p.9 / Hong Kong Electronics Revisited --- p.24 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Hong Kong as A Follower in the Rear --- p.30 / The Electronics Industry in Retrospect --- p.30 / Inertia in Upgrade as a Strategic Choice --- p.40 / Flexibility or Rigidity: a Second Thought --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Uncovering Local Dynamics --- p.53 / International Subcontracting as a Double-edged Sword --- p.53 / Uncovering Local Dynamics --- p.59 / Handicapped Firms in Truncated Market --- p.69 / Reinstating Local Dynamics in Global Continuity --- p.75 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Reinstating Possibilities for Upgrade --- p.76 / Alternative Organizational Forms Unearthed --- p.76 / The Institutional Effect Reinstated --- p.86 / Hong Kong Upgrade Failure Reconsidered --- p.93 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Social Selection of Upgrade Trajectory --- p.95 / References --- p.103 / Appendix 1 The Data Set of 53 Electronics Companies Listed on HKSE / Appendix 2 The Schedule for In-depth Interview with Hong Kong Electronics Firms

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Geography / Master / Master of Philosophy

A key element that enables a firm to achieve better performance is a fit between environment and firm strategy. A review of the literature on strategic management reveals that this relationship is moderated by other contextual variables, and that these contextual variables have not been systematically studied. The major focus of this study was to examine the impact of an important contextual variable, property ownership type, on the environment-strategy relationship and its performance implications. To guide this study theoretically, the literature on organizational environment, strategy, the environment-strategy relationship, and property ownership was reviewed, and theoretical implications discussed. It was hypothesized that (1) firms exhibiting same ownership type were likely to respond to perceived environment with similar strategy, and such responses varied across ownership types, (2) such strategic decisions would lead to better firm performance, and (3) in addition to the indirect impact of ownership on performance through the environment-strategy relationship, ownership type also had direct impact on performance. In order to test these hypotheses, constructs were operationalized in multidimensional manner. Perceived environment was operationalized in terms of three dimensions (resource scarcity, dynamism, and complexity), and strategy was operationalized in terms of five dimensions (futurity, proactiveness, analysis, defensiveness, and riskiness). Each of these dimensions were found to be theoretically significant in previous research. The research was set in the People’s Republic of China. Two hundred and two firms were surveyed, and these firms represented four ownership types (state enterprises, collective enterprises, joint venture enterprises, and private enterprises). Analysis of results suggest that ownership type is a theoretically important variable that has significant impact on variables that subject to managerial control. Firm ownership type moderated the magnitude (in two ownership types) and configuration (in another two ownership types) of environment-strategy relationship. This moderating effect of ownership led to significant performance implications. Moreover, firm ownership also had significant direct impact on firm performance. Findings from this study contribute insight into the environment-strategy relationship and hold promise for studying strategic management issues in former centrally planned economies undergoing transition toward market economies. / Ph. D.

After 30 years' market reforms and exported-oriented industrialization, China has created an economic miracle by playing the role of a world factory. With a case study of a high-tech electronics manufacturing firm (anonymously referred as HiTek) in Suzhou, this dissertation explores the labor process and labor relations in advanced manufacturing under the global production system and in the context of China's industrial upgrading. / In my empirical analysis, I firstly trace how global production network changes the production process and unravel the mutual influences between the labor market with local clustering and the employers' recruitment strategies. I take them as the key background factors in the shaping of the politics of flexible production. Then, I use the case study of HiTek and analyze how it implements the customized mass production with high performance and high flexibility on the shop floor in the face of volatile product markets and labor market. I point out that in order to secure the subordination and better cooperation from its workers, HiTeck gives up the direct coercive despotic factory regime and executes the flexible despotism combining with enforcing strict disciplinary management, responding to workers' interests and rights, and even establishing the internal communication mechanisms. However, I indicate that although workers obtain more legal rights, they fail to effectively improve their labor conditions under the new labor control. In the meantime, the social status of migrant workers restricts their claims for social benefits and enhances their mobility. As a result, workers have to voice and seek to make use labor market opportunities for improving their conditions. Finally, I stress that the consequence of the interaction between the global flexible production and the workers' resistance against labor control leads to the uncertain employment relationship characterized by the high turnover of workers. I also emphasize that it is Chinese workers who finally pay high costs for such a relationship: they not only fail to enhance bargaining powers with their employers, but also suffer from an insecure and uncertain environment. / The dissertation develops an analytical framework of the politics of flexible production in the age of the globalizing production. My theoretical discussion begins with the theory of production politics developed by Michael Burawoy. I emphasize that labor process should be examined not only within the workplace, but also in relation to external societal factors. I argue that the pursuit of flexibility of global production changes the structuring of labor process: the external markets are not static conditions to manufacturers, but are now becoming dynamic factors shaping production arrangements and labor control. Hence, I indicate that flexible production has brought about a sophisticated triangular relationship between the buyers from developed countries, the transnational manufacturers in newly industrialized countries, and the workers in developing countries, particularly in China. This is quite different from the previous studies wherein the focus is placed on a simple dual relationship between manufactures and workers within a single country. / 薛紅. / Adviser: Tai-Lok Lui. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Xue Hong.

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / abstract / Geography / Master / Master of Philosophy

Paul Tsai, Law Tat-ming, Stephen. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Bibliography: leaves 99-100.

by Leung, Brain Shui-kei, Ng, Timmy Kwok-wai. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves 72-73. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.viii / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Research Methodology --- p.4 / Chapter II. --- FACTORY-FLOOR COMPUTERIZATION OF ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN HONG KONG --- p.5 / An Overview of the Worldwide Electronics Manufacturing Industry --- p.5 / Electronics Manufacturing Industry in Hong Kong --- p.11 / Production Control Problems in Electronics Manufacturing Firms in Hong Kong --- p.13 / The Survey --- p.15 / The Solution: On-Line Real-Time Information System --- p.24 / Chapter III. --- A STUDY OF THE APPLICABILITY OF THE SUGGESTED ON-LINE REAL-TIME INFORMATION SYSTEM TO A MEDIUM SIZED ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING FIRM IN HONG KONG / The Company --- p.29 / A Study of the Existing Production Controlling System --- p.30 / Problems with the Existing Production Controlling System --- p.31 / """OLRTIS""" --- p.35 / The Design of OLRTIS --- p.36 / Implementation of the Proposed OLRTIS --- p.47 / Cost / Benefits Analysis --- p.49 / Chapter IV. --- PRACTICAL CONSIDERATION --- p.56 / Top Management Attitude --- p.56 / Training of Staff and Workers --- p.57 / Acceptance/Resistance of the New System --- p.57 / "Garbage In, Garbage Out" --- p.59 / Impact of the New System on Management Organization --- p.59 / Human Resources --- p.60 / Chapter V. --- CONCLUSION --- p.61 / APPENDIXES --- p.63 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.72

by Leung Wing-keung, Joseph, Mok Yan-hung, Albert. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988. / Bibliography: leaves 92-93.