Chunxiang Liu
Business School, Zhejiang Wanli University, China, No. 8 of Qianhu South Road, Zhejiang Province, China
Luna Joyce
Department of Business Adiministration, Business School, Silicon Valley University, California, USA
ABSTRACT
In the current macro-economic background, the traditional industrial cluster upgrading is an important content of transformation and upgrading of Zhejiangs industrial structure and is also a powerful guarantee to realize the sustainable development of Zhejiang manufacturing industry. But there are not so many related articles. Therefore, this article has made a comprehensive research on the upgrading status of Zhejiang traditional industry clusters. To be detailed, this article defines the meaning of traditional industry clusters upgrading, designs a survey questionnaire and makes an empirical research on the upgrading status of Zhejiang traditional industry clusters from the respects of product upgrading, value chain upgrading, enterprise competence upgrading, enterprise network position upgrading and correlation and spillover effects upgrading based on the Global Value Chain. The basic conclusion is Zhejiangs traditional industry clusters have embedded in GVC with a relative low degree. Therefore, those traditional industry clusters are still facing unsymmetrical production and brand power and are still in the in the low-end links with "smile curve".
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Chunxiang Liu and Luna Joyce, 2013. An Empirical Analysis of Upgrading Status of Zhejiang Traditional Industry
Clusters from the Perspective of Global Value Chain. Journal of Applied Sciences, 13: 1597-1601.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.1597.1601
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2013.1597.1601
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.1597.1601
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2013.1597.1601
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