The China Information Technology Handbook

Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Guanxi and Information Technology Companies in China: Understanding Social Connections Structures -- 1 Introduction -- China and Information Technology Companies -- 2 Definitions of Guanxi -- 2.1 Dimensions of guanxi construct -- 2.2 Categories of guanxi -- 2.3 Advantages and risks of guanxi -- 2.4 Guanxi Today -- 3 Conclusions and implications for management in the IT sector -- References -- Chapter 2 Information Technology Outsourcing Risk Trends in China -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Information Systems Risk -- 2.1 IT Risk Identification and Analysis -- 2.2 Brainstorming -- 2.3 Nominal Group Technique -- 2.4 Delphi Method -- 3 Risk Analysis and Mitigation -- 3.1 Outsourcing Risks -- 3.2 Tradeoffs in ERP Outsourcing -- 3.3 Qualitative Factors -- 4 Outsourcing Risks in China -- 4.1 Business Risks -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 Chinese Consumers Attitudes and Adoption of Online and Mobile Banking -- 1 New distribution channels and effects on consumer behaviour in the retail banking industry -- 2 Online and mobile banking in China -- 3 Consumer attitude and adoption of electronic banking -- 3.1 Factors predetermining consumer attitude and adoption of mbanking -- 3.2 Drivers of online and mobile banking in China -- 4 The survey -- 4.1 Issues investigated in the study -- 4.2 Study objectives -- 4.3 Users/non-users demographics -- 4.4 Factors affecting consumer attitude and adoption of m-banking -- 4.5 Chinese consumers attitudes to online and mobile banking -- 5 Managerial implications -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 International Patterns in Manufacturing Strategies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and the research process -- 3 Results and analysis -- 4 Conclusions and summary -- References -- Chapter 5 The Term Innovation and its Front End 8211; Is There a Specific Asian View? -- 1 Background -- 2 Innovation and innovativeness -- 2.1 Introduction and history -- 2.2 The term innovation -- 2.3 Innovation in small and big companies -- 2.4 Fuzzy Front End of Innovation -- 3 Different views on the same issue -- 4 Future directions -- References -- Chapter 6 Beijing International IT R & D Hub -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Beijings Location Advantage to Establish International IT R & D Hub -- 2.1 Human Capital -- 2.2 Business Environment -- 2.3 Actual Scale of FDI Utilization -- 2.4 Standard of Science and Technology -- 2.5 Degree of Protecting Intellectual Property Right -- 3 Growth Stage of Beijing International IT R & D Hub -- 3.1 Budding Period -- 3.2 Incubator Period -- 3.3 Development Period -- 4 Strategy -- 4.1 Model of Brand City Building -- 4.2 Model of Beijing Brand City Building -- 4.3 A key Issue to Build Brand City8212;Business Environment -- 4.4 Strategy of Establishing Brand City -- 5 Role of Government -- 5.1 Further Improve the Law System -- 5.2 Strengthen the Supervision on Enterprises -- 5.3 Perfect Agency Service Organizations -- 5.4 Perfect the Service Mechanism for Enterprises -- 5.5 Further to Improve the Urban Infrastructure -- 5.6 Building Favorable Policies to Recruit and Retain Talent -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Absorptive Capability, Local Innovation Networks, and International R & D Spillovers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Background.