Introduction 介绍
Since the end of the Second World War, businesses and organisations across the globe have faced numerous challenges that have either acted as a stepping stone to new operations height, or have acted as a hindrance to the continuity to the affected business in its respective industry. These transformations have been propagated by factors ranging from the rapidly changing technology and rising global competition to the emergence of new organisational structures, new products and crises among other factors. In his analysis of organisational transformation, In reference to Rouse (2005), rapid globalisation and the increasing pace of competition due to the rapidly evolving technology requires businesses and organisations to implement different forms of fundamental changes since this is the only way they can be able to maintain their competitive advantage in their respective industries. Speaking from this point of view, this paper explores the fundamental transformations that have occurred in Huawei, a Chinese telecommunication company.
自第二次世界大战结束以来，全球各地的企业和组织都面临着诸多挑战，这些挑战要么是迈向新业务高度的垫脚石，要么是阻碍了各自行业受影响业务的连续性。这些转变是由各种因素传播的，从迅速变化的技术和日益激烈的全球竞争到新的组织结构、新产品和危机的出现等等。在他对组织转型的分析中，参考Rouse（2005年），迅速的全球化和快速发展的技术所带来的日益激烈的竞争要求企业和组织实施不同形式的根本性变革，因为这是它们能够在各自行业保持竞争优势的途径。从这个角度出发，本文探讨了中国电信公司华为所发生的根本性变革。
Background 出身背景
Huawei is one of the leading telecommunication and networking companies not only in China, its home market, but also across the globe. An analysis of this company’s position on the global market indicates that it is the third largest seller of smartphones across the globe, trailing only Samsung and Apple, which hold the first and second position respectively as far as global smartphone market is concerned (The Economic Times, 2018). In this, a recent report by The Economic Times (2018) reveals that this company has a 10.9 percent market share of the total global smartphone market, up from 10.6 percent in 2016 (Figure 1). In this regard, whereas most smartphone producers including Samsung and Apple were experiencing declining sales of smartphones, Huawei maintained a small but steady growth in its sale of smartphones over the last two years.
华为不仅在其国内市场中国，而且在全球都是领先的电信和网络公司之一。对该公司在全球市场地位的分析表明，该公司是全球第三大智能手机销售商，仅次于三星和苹果，就全球智能手机市场而言，三星和苹果分别位居和第二（《经济时报》，2018年）。在这方面，《经济时报》（2018）最近的一份报告显示，该公司在全球智能手机市场的市场份额为10.9%，高于2016年的10.6%（图1）。在这方面，尽管包括三星和苹果在内的大多数智能手机生产商的智能手机销量都在下降，但华为在过去两年的智能手机销量保持了小幅但稳定的增长。
Figure 1: Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker – 4th Quarter, 2017 [Source: IDC]