Product Development Knowledge Spillover On Global Value Chain And Sustainable Growth Of OEM Enterprises

On the global value chain, the knowledge spillover and learning among organizations create opportunities for OEM enterprises' learning and sustainable growth. By analyzing the OEM enterprises' general growing-path on value chain, this thesis has proven that in the OEM process learning and the accumulation of Product Development Knowledge are the basis of OEM enterprises which tend to strengthen the independent innovation ability and to keep growing. It points out the fundamental factors that affect Product development knowledge spillover and learning on the global value chain and constructs supposition frame of empirical research, which are on the foundation of theoretical analysis. Based on the survey of OEM enterprises Electronic Information manufacturing in Dongguan, the findings of empirical research indicate that they learn well and obtain more product development ability than ever before. Therefore, they should follow the independent innovation pattern: introduction—digestion—absorption—re-creation. And, it also indicates that, trust and interaction frequency among the enterprises are the most important determining factors in Product development spillover and learning. The learning tendency, the scale and Product development capacity of OEM enterprises are the foundation on which they learn the clients' product development knowledge; Lengthening the cooperation deadline is helpful for learning, while high complexity of product development knowledge not. Finally, this thesis proposes suggestions on how to promote the OEM enterprises' learning and sustainable growth.