Quantitative Assessment of Enterprise Ecological Niche for Wind Turbine Manufacturers
This paper introduces the ecosystem and niche theory to study wind turbine manufacturing industry, in order to reflect the relation between wind turbine manufacturers and their supply-demand, economy, society and policy environment. Through the wind turbine manufacturer enterprises (WTMEs) niche which consists of market factor, production resource factor, technology factor and system factor, the paper makes a comprehensive analysis of survival and development conditions of turbine manufacturers from the industrial ecosystem perspective, constructs a WTMEs' niche evaluation index system (WNEIS). A mutation model evaluation method is used to assess the niche of China' s 6 main WTMEs. It is proved that the proposed WNEIS can help the WTMEs to find the competition advantage and constraint factors for their development, and can provide a valuable reference for WTMEs to improve their business situation and development strategies in the future. This work is support by the Humanities and Social Research Plan Projects of the Ministry of Education of China (12YJAZH205).
wind turbine manufactureenterprise ecological nicheecosystem modelcatastrophe theory