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China Innovation Challenge: A Reprise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2025

Arie Y. Lewin*
Affiliation:
Duke University, USA

Extract

To begin with, I wish to thank Editor-in-Chief Xiao-Ping Chen for her initiative to celebrate MOR's twentieth anniversary by inviting a series of essays under the seductive title ‘MOR and Me’, with the overarching subtitle ‘Chinese management research: Looking back, current status, and future prospects’.

Type
Editorial Essay
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Association for Chinese Management Research

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Footnotes

This essay is inspired by my Keynote Address, ‘China Innovation Challenge in the Age of Digitalization: The Crucial Role of China Transformative Capacity’, presented at the 10th International Symposium on Management of Technology Innovation and Management in the Digital World, June 10–11, 2023, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

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