Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development

An abstract is not available. A preview is quoted below: Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development. By DOUGLAS B. FULLER. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 279 pp. ISBN: 9780198843221 (paper). doi:10.1017/S002191182000011X Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons argues that, in China, firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign funding are the hidden dragons driving China’s technological development, while the domestic firms are technological paper tigers whose technological prowess is fiction rather than fact. The book attempts to illustrate this argument with conceptual reasoning, empirical evidence, and anecdotes. It concludes with a discussion of political economy and suggests that importing foreign institutions has driven China’s technology advancement. The factual content is interesting, but the conclusion might be challenging. To set the conceptual stage, part one of the book introduces a framework on technology advancement that emphasizes two factors: financing and operational strategy in choosing a location of core activities.