Yeah, this is just the difference between the "cash cow" and "question mark" companies on the BCG growth-share matrix. The Chinese companies will sooner or later turn into stodgy cash cows themselves.

Yea is there not a saying about when the suits and bean counters take over a company the culture dies?

I think you two are talking about the same thing. The overbearing corporate culture is the cause of valuing dress formality over performance and dynamicism.

The question is why doesn't Germany have any young upstart auto companies when the US and China do? The question being the rhetorical kind.