Corporate Response Strategy and Behavior under the Chinese Government Innovation Policy System: A Multi-case Study Based on Grounded Theory

Abstract

Abstract: How firms respond to government's innovation policy will decide whether the policy can play its desired role. Drawing upon six high-tech firms in China, this paper uses multi-case study method and grounded theory to explore the mechanism of how tech firms respond to the innovation policies made by governments at the central, provincial, municipal and district/county level in China and then constructs a theoretical model of "cognition-strategy-action". Results show that firms can not only see policy resources from innovation policies text, but also feel competitive pressures and identify industrial information from the competitive mechanism of China's innovation policy system. And different firms will have different cognition levels at different hierarchical government innovation policies. Further, those differences will result in different corporate strategies of response to innovation policies.

Key words: government innovation policy, corporate response mechanism, grounded theory, multi-case comparative analysis

Tian Zhilong, Chen Liling, Taieb Hafsi, Gu Jialin. Corporate Response Strategy and Behavior under the Chinese Government Innovation Policy System: A Multi-case Study Based on Grounded Theory[J]. Management Review, 2021, 33(12): 87-99.

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