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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

6. Whatever Happened to Industrial Democracy

Author : Denise Tsang

Published in: Industrial Democracy in the Chinese Aerospace Industry

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

Can China innovate? Chinese aerospace conglomerates AVIC, CASC, CASIC and COMAC have managed to focus on re-combination to undertake incremental innovation that reinforce core design concepts while maintaining linkage between core concepts and components; by doing so, they turned China’s locational disadvantages in aerospace production during the early days into country advantages that are attractive to foreign investors. Though industrial democracy among Chinese aerospace conglomerates differs from their American and European counterparts and is not considered ideal, it provides intrinsic motivation among employees within a Confucian family-based culture. Additionally, the more recent introduction of Western techniques involving aerospace professionals has further improved the conglomerates’ attractiveness among the new generation of talents. But there remain challenges towards the frontiers of radical innovation and architectural innovation.

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previous chapter Obsolency or Revival of Old Style Industrial Democracy
Footnotes
1
After his post-doctorate in material science, Gary Georgeson joined Boeing as an engineer in 1988; he became a technical fellow in 2005.
 
2
France introduced the German style supervisory board in its Commercial Code of 1996.
 
3
They are executives of other global firms such as Deutsche Bank, Rexel, Arcelor Mittal, Anglo-America and Peugeot Citroën.
 
4
This relates to the appointment and dismissal of its members.
 
5
Only 11.1% of US public and private sectors employees were members of the trade union in 2014 as compared to 20.1% in 1983 (see Membership Rate Falls for U.S. Unions in 2014, The Wall Street Journal, 23 January 2015).
 
6
The aircraft assembled by Airbus in France had its sub-systems produced in Europe: the wings from the UK, the cockpit from France, the fuselage from Germany and the tail cone from Spain (see Airbus: the European Model, The Financial Times, 23 May 2014).
 
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Metadata
Title
Whatever Happened to Industrial Democracy
Author
Denise Tsang
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Industrial Democracy in the Chinese Aerospace Industry

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-58022-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-58023-8

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58023-8_6