Research On Stability Of Industrial Chain

Industrial chain has been playing an indispensable role in economic development. If the chain was interrupted or inefficient, the functions would be influenced, even the economy would be in a vicious circle. Nevertheless, theoretic research is insufficient, comparing with the usage of words"industrial chain"in practice. Therefore, it is necessary and urgent that we should pay more attention to theoretic research of industrial chain. This dissertation will analyze the influential factors of instability and all levels of stability in industrial chain thoroughly, and we will contrive mechanisms to solve the problem.In this dissertation, the factors influencing the stability of industrial chain also include the relationship between upriver and downriver organizations, industrial market, government policy and other subsidiary conditions, besides enterprise behaviors or the pure industrial chain links. The dissertation will define the concept of the industrial chain, relationship among industrial chain and value chain, supply chain, review the theories of industrial chain, and then grasp the inherent stability mechanism of the industrial chain, construct the framework for studying the stability of industry chain. The core of framework includes four levels: stability of the single chain, stability of competition between the same industrial chains, stability of industries'interaction, and evolution of industrial chain. And the dissertation will be divided into eight charters, as follows:Chapter one: introduction. It mainly includes research purpose and significance, research method of the dissertation, as well as the arrangement of the content.Chapter two: narration and review on the Industrial chain theory. This chapter is the foundation of the thesis, and it mainly carries on ascertaining the connotation of industrial chain, obtaining the characteristics and functions of industrial chain, and analogy analyzing relationship among value chain, supply chain and industrial chain. The dissertation will summarize others'research productions and progress of research on stabilization of industrial chain, and analyze the development tendency on the industrial chain studies. Then research framework of this dissertation will be constructed.Chapter three: analysis on the influence factors of industrial chain stability. They are: relationship between upriver and downriver organizations, accessorial relevancy of industrial chain, government policies, limitation of industrial market. The rupture of industrial chain, which is based on resources'dependence and rooted from circumbendibus of industrial chain, will lead to the shortage of supply, decrease the industrial resource efficiency, and then make the relationship between enterprises instable. And, there exists that the imbalance development in accessorial industrial organizations which induces instability of industrial chain, that advances accessorial industrial organizations should be brought into the system of industrial chain and be developed by the way of industrial harmonization institution. Analysis on the industrial consumer marketing mainly includes two factors: consumer demand and industrial life cycle. Finally, the government policies are analyzed as an induced factor to the forming and development of industrial chain.Chapter four: Stability of single industrial chain. In this chapter, the idea of symbiosis in biology will be brought into industrial economy, and the parallel coupling mechanism will be used to construct the system of industrial chains. We will compare series coupling mechanism and the parallel coupling mechanism. Series coupling is a connection way that the components are connected by one single chain. Industrial chain is connected in series from raw materials to finished goods (including tangible and invisible goods).Nevertheless, in parallel coupling mechanism, the components are connected by parallel coupling way, and there are more than two paths to be chosen in every node. Based on the reality of industrial activities, industrial chain will be designed in parallel coupling way.Chapter five: stability of competition between the same industrial chains——the spatial distribution of the industrial chain. Section one will explain the phenomenon why industry arises in non-specialized areas, based on the theory of enterprise boundary. In the second section, competition between the same industrial chains in different areas is concluded to an involution process in which the enterprises in different areas compete with each other. And in the third section, the regional industry chain will be constructed by optimizing industry tache, strengthening the weak tache of industrial chain, managing industry chain etc.Chapter six: , stability of industries'interaction. This chapter mainly analyzes action of the urban and rural industries and the evolution mechanism. The interaction theory in sociology will be introduced to reconstruct the relation between industries. Through the deducing of simple model of interaction, the process of industrial arising and growth will be described. In the first section, industrial relationship will be defined on the viewpoint of interaction. The second section mainly analyzes the factors influencing industries'interaction. They are: structure of the level of regional development and technical knowledge, elements'mobility between different areas, maturity degree of industrial system of urban and rural areas, socio-cultural environment, and the role of government. The third section will analyze the evolution modes of industries interaction and the interaction mechanism. And then the fourth section will study the industries interaction in China's comprehensive coordination of urban and rural areas. It is easy to get that the relationship between urban industries and rural industries is in an evolving process: from initial separation to the high-level interaction.Chapter seven: industrial evolution. The first section will analyze harmonization effect between industrial chain's deepening and specialized market mechanism. The second section will analyze the factors restricting specialization, the evolution mode of industries convergence will be constructed.. And the measures which stimulate industry evolution will be proposed.Chapter eight: conclusion and revelation.The main research innovation of this dissertation are as follows:Ⅰ. Define the industry chain on the view of system. The dissertation will breaking through definition on industrial chain in the past, and industrial chain is defined as an economic relationship, which is constituted by the relationship of upriver and downriver organizations, accessorial relevancy industry organizations, government policies, and industrial market.Ⅱ. Construct research framework of industrial chain's stability. The framework includes four levels: stability of the single chain, stability of competition between the same industrial chains, stability of industries'interaction, and evolution of industrial chain.Ⅲ. Explain the phenomenon why industry arises in non-specialized areas, based on the theory of enterprise boundary. And the competition between the same industrial chains in different areas is defined to an involution process in which the enterprises in different areas compete with each other.Ⅳ. Interaction theory is introduced to reconstruct the relation between different industries. Through the deducing of simple model of interaction, it is easy to get that the relationship between urban industries and rural industries is in an evolving process: from initial separation to the high-level interaction.Ⅴ. Systematic theory and evolution theory are used to analyze industrial deepening and industrial convergence.The stability of industrial chain is a complicated subject. The dissertation tries to construct the framework for studying the industrial chain's stability. There exists a heavy shortage——lacking large sample of empirical data in this dissertation. In addition, along with the constraints of my knowledge and ability, the theory of industrial chain is at the growth stage, this dissertation is just a beginning. And the shortages and issues not involved in this dissertation still remain to be further studied.