This paper offers a taxonomic examination of the springboard perspective, outlining three upgrading paths pursued by emerging market firms – path following, path creating and path compressing. The choice of the upgrading path is determined primarily by home-country conditions including market size and growth, innovative capability, government intervention, and market and institutional imperfections. We find that “springboarding” is a strategy most likely to be adopted by path-compressing firms and least likely to be observed among path-creating firms.

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理论上的跳板在经济追赶中的作用

本文提供了对跳板观点的分类学研究，概述了新兴市场公司追求的三种升级路径–路径跟随，路径创建和路径压缩。升级路径的选择主要取决于母国的条件，包括市场规模和增长，创新能力，政府干预以及市场和体制缺陷。我们发现，“跳板”是最有可能被路径压缩公司采用的策略，而在创建路径的公司中最不可能被采用的策略。