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Chinese Automotive Supply Chain Management

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The chapter discusses the development of supply chain management and IS integration in the context of the Chinese automotive industry. The discussion covers the drivers of industry development, the status quo of the automotive market and IS applications in the automotive supply chain. This chapter also sets the empirical settings for the following three chapters of interviews and survey.

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    Local content rate refers to the percentage of a product that is manufactured within all of China (Thru 2006). Local content policy indicates that the local content rate must be 40% for OEMs in the first year of production, and increasing to 60–80% in the second and third year of production (Gao 2002).

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    Beijing Jeep was the first JV by Beijing Automobile Works and American Motors in 1983; Shanghai Volkswagen was established in the same year by SAIC and Volkswagen; then Guangzhou with Peugeot in 1985, followed by FAW-Volkswagen and FAW Peugeot Citroen in 1990 (Xie and Wu 1997).

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    A semi-structured interview is that the researcher has an interview guide, but interviewees have ‘a great deal of leeway in how to reply’. Questions may not follow the sequence listed in the guide. Questions that are not on the list can also be asked as they pick up on the answers from interviewees (Bryman 2001).

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    Nvivo software can be found http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_nvivo.aspx.

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    ‘SPSS is a very widely used computer program designed to aid the statistical analysis of data, particularly data collected in the course of research. It has become the ‘industry standard’ software for data analysis’ (Brace et al. 2006). https://www.ibm.com/products/spss-statistics.

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Wu, Y. (2019). Chinese Automotive Supply Chain Management. In: Achieving Supply Chain Agility. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98440-7_3

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