Study Of The Internal Mechanism Of Industrial Integration

Industrial convergence is a process during which the competition, collaboration and coevolution between the essential elements composing different industries occur due to the emergence and diffusion of newness and with the result of a new industry forming in the open industry system. With the time goes on, industrial convergence becomes more and more evident and is bringing profound impacts upon the world in terms of economy, life and society. However, the existing industry economy theories, based on industrial economy age, can not offer reasonable explanations about the new economy phenomenon. In such case, the study on its inherent mechanism would have great value not only on enriching the industry economy theory and itself, but also instructing evolvement of the business development strategy, industrial management system and policies.Now international research on industrial convergence mainly focus on theory system establishment, taking convergence of some certain industry for induction and deduction and testifying assumptions with corresponding empirical study. Such work in our country just begins, basically centered on introduction of foreign ideas, influence of industrial convergence, case study of certain industrial convergence and etc., sporadically coming to its connotative meaning, cause and process, and seldom referring to its inherent mechanism.Upon the above analysis, using self-organization theory as methodology, adopting empirical research, case study, numerical simulation as study methods and basing on system theory, division of labor theory, innovation theory, evolutionary economics theory and the like, this dissertation makes such positive researches on the mechanism of industrial convergence as what the industrial convergence is, how and why it occurs, how it is recognized and measured and etc. and completes relevant empirical research and case study on the national computer, communication and broadcast television industry, and then building up the inner mechanism of industrial convergence as follow:Firstly, industrial convergence is an objective new economic phenomenon, which has its specific denotation, subject and object. Its denotation refers to convergence in terms of technology, corporation, product, system, market and the like. Its subject refers to corporations providing convergent product and service, not corporations that adopt diversification strategy. Its object refers to convergent product which integrates several industry attributes or functions through module integration on an independent output.Secondly. the process of industrial convergence is a self-organized process. With the sign of the innovation of convergent product, the process can be defined as two parts: from the very beginning to its show up and from appearance to completion. Subtition effect plays an important role in the the process of completion.Thirdly, industrial convergence is the result under the interaction of incentive mechanism, motivation mechanism and hindrance mechanism. In detail, it is coming up through the non-linear competition and non-linear collaboration under the background of the technology innovation and modularization. And industrial convergence is with the inner incentive factors including symbiosis principle, synergy effect, competitive advantage, Herd effect, network effect and etc. Meanwhile, it conquers the macro-system factors, core competence factors and demand factors.Last but not least, the empirical research shows that technology convergence has occurred in the national computer, communication, broadcast and television industry, while the business convergence is still in the bud. Technology convergence has not direct relativity with business convergence. The level of technology convergence and profit margin are negatively correlated. And the level of business convergence and profit margin are weak negatively correlated.