This chapter delineates Huawei’s path to its cutting-edge technology and innovation leadership by examining its specific R&D strategies in different domains, including its core strength in switching technology, its contradictory role in developing China’s indigenous telecom standards, the catch-up strategy in semiconductor technology, and its patents and intellectual property strategies. It highlights the paradoxical dynamics between the techno-nationalist initiative and the logic of capitalist accumulation underlying Huawei’s technological innovation. Huawei’s increasing power in international markets and the arena of technological governance suggests that Chinese technological firms have played an increasingly important role in influencing and even defining global technology.
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This chapter examines Huawei’s ownership structure and its controversial managerial and labor policies. Huawei’s experiments in designing its employee-shareholding ownership structure can be viewed a result of an organizational innovation in the context of China’s corporatization and ownership diversification reforms. To capture the complicated process of class restructuring and labor relations in a transnationalized production system, this chapter also provides an analysis of Huawei’s labor practices, including its procurement practices, training systems, hierarchical job structure, divisive salary regime, and “soft management” skills. The relentless practices and coercive modes of labor control reveal the capital-labor tensions.
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