Measuring Servitization Of Chinese Manufacturing And Research Of Its Influencing Factors

The servitization of manufacturing has become an important topic of research at home and broad,since western developed countries gradually enter into the service economy society.Judging from the existing literatures at home and abroad,scholars have developed lots of research,aspects from the definition of servitization,dynamic mechanism of servitization to the influencing factors of enterprises' servitization strategy,and its impact to enterprises' value.As to the study of servitization of the Chinese manufacturing,few scholars use micro data to measure the level of servitization.Based on this,this paper try to explore the basic situation of Chinese manufacturing enterprises' servitization and find out the influencing factors of its differences.In regard to the servitization of manufacturing enterprises,this paper put forward two dimensions of measurement firstly:input-servitization and output-servitization,and explore the situation of input-servitization and output-servitization respectively from 2004 to 2007 by calculating the proportion of service-intermediate input to intermediate input of industry and numbers of service activities.The results show that,during period of study,the input-servitization level and output-servitization level of Midwest illustrate higher than eastern ones,and the input-servitization level of technology-intensive industry illustrate higher than the ones of labor-intensive industry.But the former shows lower than the letter when it comes to the output-servitization level.In regard to the influencing factors of servitization level,this paper put forward empirical research hypotheses and models,and main explanatory variables through Industry integration theory,including enterprise scale,market demand,government regulation,technical innovation and market competition and then explore the influences of these variables to input-servitization and output-servitization of enterprises using empirical research.Main conclusions are as follows:First,the enterprise scale,technology innovation and market competition have positive significant impact to the input-servitization level and output-servitization of the enterprise:the bigger the scale of the enterprise,the higher the level of technological innovation and the bigger of the competition in the market which enterprise faces,the greater of the level of its input-servitization and output-servitization.Second,the larger market demand enterprise faces,the greater of the level of its output-servitization(the influence of market demand to the level of its input-servitization is not steady).Third,the influences of the government regulation on the level of enterprises' input-servitization and output-servitization are not significant.In order to explore the role of this factor in the process of servitization,this article distinguish the sample between the non-state-owned and state-owned enterprise and doing the regression respectively.The results show that the non-state-owned holding companies show heterogeneity in the process of servitization with state-owned enterprises.