Doris FischerUniversity of Wuerzburg | JMU · Department of East and South Asian Cultural Studies
Doris Fischer
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Introduction
My long-term research interest focuses on competition, innovation and industrial policies and the incentives they create for economic actors (mainly in China). Current research projects investigate characteristics of energy transition related industrial policies under administration of Xi Jinping (DFG project Industriepolitik), local self-organisation in the context of the Chinese energy transition (DFG project LoSAM) and the impact of the Chinese social credit system on firms (bidt project)
Additional affiliations
March 2012 - March 2020
August 2007 - February 2012
Education
October 1984 - October 1991
University of Hamburg and University of Wuhan, China
Field of study
- Business administration, Sinology
Publications
Publications (47)
Corporate credit reporting (CCR), which aims at increasing trust in corporates, constitutes an intriguing, yet understudied set of regulatory institutions as it is both a regulatory object and subject at the same time. Differences in national CCR systems pose challenges for multinational companies and have increasingly become a subject of internati...
Xi Jinping’s ascension to power and subsequent developments in Chinese governance have stoked the flames on the debate on industrial policies, both in China and across the globe. At least partly, the debate results from the perception that industrial policies have been important for China’s economic rise, growing compet- itiveness and drive to inno...
The article gives an overview of the Social Credit System (SCS), especially the part related to firms and credit reporting. It argues that the Chinese government pursues the SCS as a means to increase trust, trigger innovation and enhance competitiveness of Chinese firms. Many of the functions of the SCS are likely to contribute to these goals, how...
Start-up ecosystems around the world have created a large number of successful and innovative unicorn companies in recent years. Our research note focuses on the case of China and offers a global comparative perspective on the current status of Chinese unicorn start-ups and their founding structure. We identify a predominantly male unicorn founding...
Amidst an emerging international systemic competition between China and the Western world, China's sustained high economic growth rates, technological innovations and successful control of the corona pandemic have raised doubts over the West's systemic capabilities. In this context, data resources and regimes play an increasing role. This research...
In an effort to increase trustworthiness across society, the Chinese government has been building its Social Credit System since 2014. This system targets all natural and legal persons in China and consists of four major elements: a central data platform, a rating system for commercial creditworthiness, a propaganda system for educative purposes an...
‘Intentional ambiguity’ is a concept that most commonly appears either in the realm of diplomacy (Benson and Niou 2001) or in military jargon to describe a situation where two factions circumvent confrontation by using imprecisions to discuss a sensitive topic upon which each side possesses contrasting ideas (Johnson 2017). While much criticism is...
Chinas Aufstieg in der Weltwirtschaft während der letzten Jahrzehnte basiert in nicht unerheblichem Maße auf der Übernahme von Technologien, Produkten und Geschäftsideen aus dem Ausland. Das Bild einer von Plagiaten und Produktpiraterie getriebenen Volkswirtschaft stimmt so aber heute nicht mehr. China hat in den letzten Jahren erhebliche Forschung...
Interdisciplinarity has experienced cyclical fluctuations. Even though it is currently gaining popularity again, the contours of the notion of interdisciplinarity often re-main blurred. For a Research Unit that is adopting an interdisciplinary perspective it is therefore imperative to reach a consensus regarding the underlying concept and its impli...
The nucleus of statehood is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community, beyond the level of the family, first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. But usually this is not the only level of governance at play. Above it, there are supralocal f...
In jüngerer Zeit ist Industriepolitik zu einem Zankapfel sowohl in China als auch in Chinas internationalen Beziehungen geworden. Zugleich gab es im laufenden Jahr verschiedene Hinweise, dass die chinesische Regierung ihre industriepolitischen Ansätze überdenkt und revidiert. Dieser Beitrag vertritt die These, dass die Debatte um Industriepolitik s...
Over the past three decades, China’s fast economic development has induced considerable changes in China’s university and research institution landscape, research financing and academic career incentives. This paper argues that these changes have affected the motivation and the ways in which Chinese scholars engage in international research coopera...
Die chinesische Regierung propagiert seit einiger Zeit „Massengründungen und Masseninnovation“, um die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung zu stabilisieren und den Aufstieg Chinas in die Reihe moderner Industrienationen zu ebnen. Der Beitrag stellt diesen Fokus auf Unternehmertum und Innovation in den historischen Kontext. Dazu werden die Entwicklung des P...
Despite the large-scale investments of both China and the EU in climate-change mitigation and renewable-energy promotion, the prevailing view on China–EU relations is one of conflict rather than cooperation. In order to evaluate the prospects of cooperation between China and the EU in these policy fields, empirical research has to go beyond simplis...
Despite the large-scale investments of both China and the EU in climate change mitigation and renewable-energy promotion, the prevailing view on China–EU relations is one of conflict rather than cooperation. In order to evaluate the prospects of cooperation between China and the EU in these policy fields, empirical research has to go beyond simplis...
Large scale diffusion of low carbon technologies (LCTs) is an important element of strategies to mitigate climate change. However, diffusion of LCTs faces a number of barriers especially in developing and emerging countries. The Chinese photovoltaic (PV) paradox is an illustrative example of this dilemma: China is the largest producer of PV cells a...
Many leading economies have recently launched policy initiatives to promote electromobility. E-mobility presupposes innovations that are both radical and systemic, as new charging infrastructure, new mobility concepts and new interfaces with the energy system are needed. The paradigm shift affects an industry that is the backbone of manufacturing i...
The sustainability transition approach intends to conceptualize and manage the substantial shift in production and consumption patterns necessary to achieve sustainable paths of development. This paper suggests that the comparison of sustainability transition with the
transition from a planned to a market economy experienced by former socialist eco...
Social science research in general is confronted with growing pressure to define parameters for research quality. This is especially the case in economic research. Publications in refereed journals have become an important parameter in this process. Consequently, for following up recent trends in economic research on China the paper first presents...
Würde heute versucht, eine repräsentative Umfrage zum Chinabild der Menschen außerhalb Chinas durchzuführen, so käme mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit dabei heraus, dass die VR China international für ihren Reform- und Entwicklungskurs sowie für ihre große Bevölkerung bekannt ist und zunehmend als ernsthafter Konkurrent in der Weltwirtschaft wahrgenomme...
Als die chinesische Regierung unter Leitung von Deng Xiaoping im Jahr 1978 den chinesischen Reform- und Öffnungsprozess einleitete, hatten die politisch Beteiligten wohl keine Vorstellung davon, dass dieser Schritt China innerhalb von einem knappen Vierteljahrhundert nicht nur aus der Planwirtschaft heraus-, sondern auch mitten in den Strom der Glo...
Nearing the 25th anniversary of the beginning of economic reforms and having joined the WTO last year, China has convinced the world that it is on the way to establish a modern, international orientated and integrated market economy. Nevertheless there are still some issues to be addressed before these adjectives can be fully applied to the Chinese...
1 Introduction Environmental scientists, energy experts and relevant enterprises assure us that the technological solutions needed for low carbon development are already available. This is good news as it implies that – at least technically – it is possible to prevent global warming beyond the 2°C threshold. But what does ‗availability' of low carb...
Stability and information are prominent topics of economic research. Unfortu-nately though, research concerning the influence of the information system on economic and social stability is scarce. In contrast, Chinese politics argue with the importance of social and economic stability to limit freedom in information flows. The article summarizes the...
Questions
Question (1)
I have set up a project file some months ago and added invitations to the cooperating project members. For one of these persons the status says that she is not on researchGate. Which is not true. But somehow the invitation mail is also not functioniong. We assume that this is because I originally used an email address that is different from her registered email address. But how can we correct the error? There is no editing option for the project member part of 'projects'.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Projects
Projects (5)
LoSAM 2757 is an interdisciplinary research group focused on the local level to shed light on governance beyond the state. The research objects include different geographical areas and historical time periods. The main goal is to create a comparative analysis and develop a typology of local governance patterns.
For further information, check our website: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/for2757/losam/
Within the framework of the seven subprojects of LoSAM, our interdisciplinary DFG research unit deals with multiple varieties of local self-regulation in the context of weak statehood between antiquity and modernity.
For further information on this project see: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/for2757/losam/
China’s Social Credit System (SCS) is an artificial intelligence supported system seeking to enhance moral behavior, financial reliability and social control. It is one of the most significant examples of radical digital innovation, and to date the largest attempt made in social engineering. Its effects transcend China as it affects foreign companies and individuals present in China – including those of Germany and Bavaria. Against this background, this interdisciplinary project investigates the opportunities and risks derived from China’s digital transformation (through the SCS) and its impact on Germany and Bavaria’s government, firms and society. To this end, we build on the team’s expertise on the technical structure of the SCS from an informatics perspective; on cooperation and competition between Chinese and foreign firms, from an economics perspective; and on the impact of the SCS in global governance and diffusion processes from a political science perspective.
The project is funded by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)
https://www.bidt.digital/
