Crisis-Induced Innovation: Quality Upgrading in Chinese Industrial Clusters
研究危机（如消费者抵制和出口壁垒）如何促使中国产业集群中的企业家和地方政府采取集体行动，推动产品质量提升的制度与政策出现。
Abstract Supporting institutions and policies play a key role in facilitating upgrades to product quality among manufacturing firms. However, the emergence of quality-supporting institutions has not been well studied. Based on qualitative and quantitative evidence in Chinese clusters, this paper shows that quality-enhancing institutions and policies often emerge in response to crises, such as consumer boycotts and impositions of export barriers, which can catalyze collective action from entrepreneurs and local governments to improve product quality..