Sustainable Industrial Development in China
Thursday 16 April 2009, 09:00 - Friday 17 April 2009, 17:00
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Dates: 16-17 April 2009
Venue: Fudan University School of Management, Shanghai
China has emerged as a manufacturing and trading powerhouse in the world over the last three decades, but can China’s industries continue to develop in a sustainable way in the face of international competition, environmental challenges, and natural resource constraints? Speculation is rife already on the far-reaching implications of the question both for China’s own economic and social development and for the global economic and business landscape. With the increasing importance of China as the world’s largest developing economy, the sustainability of Chinese industrial development has become a more and more demanding issue for both policy makers and scholars.
These factors create a demand for research on sustainable industrial development in China. The Conference is jointly organised by Fudan University Management School’s Department of Industrial Economics, Lancaster China Management Centre (LCMC) and Brunel University’s Centre for Economic Development and Institutions.
Papers have been submitted across research disciplines including industrial, development and institutional economics, management science, environmental economics and related disciplines, and themes covered will include:
• Institutional reform in facilitating both industrial restructuring and policy development for more sustainable development.
• Competitiveness build-up, through means such as research and innovation, and improvement in productivity, cost/energy efficiency, and product quality.
• The impacts of globalization in general and multinational enterprises in particular upon the competitiveness of Chinese industrial sectors and firms, and the impacts of China’s industrial catch-up on the global production and business systems.
• Industrial development policy and technological developments to both alleviate environmental damages and create the prospect of renewable energy for the future growth of industry.
• Environmental impacts and natural resource constraints on sustainable development, and their challenges for reshaping industry in future.
Professors David Brown and Alasdair MacBean of the Lancaster China Management Centre will both be key speakers at the event.
Submission Arrangements
The deadline for submissions has now passed and the final arrangements for the conference are being made by:
Domestic Conference Coordinator - Dr Pei SUN, Associate Professor in Industrial Economics, School of Management, Fudan University - sunpei@fudan.edu.cn
Overseas Conference Coordinator - Ms Helen O'Donnell, Lancaster University Management School - chinacentre@lancaster.ac.uk
All invited speakers will visit Chinese company(s)/or Shanghai government institution(s) and have a round-table meeting with their managers/officials about questions the researchers are interested in.
The intention is that selected papers will also be considered for publication in the special issue of an English Journal and a Chinese Journal (translation will be arranged by Fudan) via a normal referee process organised by the Conference Committee that consists of the following members:
Members from Fudan University
Professor Xiongwen Lu, Dean of the School of Management
Professor Mingjie Rui, Head of the Department of Industrial Economics, School of Management
Professor Qiuzhi Xue, Associate Dean of the School of Management
Professor Yihong Yu, Associate Dean of the School of Management
Professor Jianji Hu, Deputy Head of the Department of Industrial Economics, School of Management
Members from Lancaster University Management School Professor David Brown, Director of the Lancaster China Management Centre (LCMC), Lancaster University Management School
Professor Alasdair MacBean, Emeritus Professor in Economics, Lancaster University Management School
Members from Brunel University
Professor John Bennett, Director of the Centre for Economic Development and Institutions, Brunel University
Dr Guy S. Liu, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, Brunel University, and Professor in Economics, Sichuan University Business School
