Competing with dominant global standards in a catching-up context. The case of mobile standards in China

Vialle, Pierre; Song, Junjie; Zhang, Jian

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2012.09.003

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“…Decisions in the technical standards of the communication industry, mainly determined by technological changes and market drivers. Vialle et al [39] used the relevant concepts of standard economics to analyze the competition between China's 2G and 3G mobile communication technology standards, and to study the extent to which governmental policies could change the results of the path-dependent competition between standards. Gao [40] studied the key strategies of Datang, a Chinese enterprise, to promote TD-SCDMA, mainly to explain how technology latecomers could improve technical standards.…”

Section: Standards Of Mobile Communication Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Network Theory-Based Approach for Importance Assessment of Drafters in Standardization

2019

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In standardization, the selection of the most influential institutions in drafting standards of specific areas is essential for improving the structure of industrial standard system. However, this problem becomes highly complex due to the large number of drafters and their influences are difficult to measure. This paper presents a research framework for assessing the importance of drafters in standardization based on a two-layer network model formed by the citation relationship between standards and the co-authorship relationship between drafters. Firstly, multiple structural indicators are integrated by the AHP to evaluate the importance of standards. Secondly, the importance of drafters are assessed by designing multidimensional indicators and verified through the case study of China's mobile communication industry. The results show that our indicators can reflect the industrial leadership gained by the participation of standards-drafting. Finally, managerial recommendations are proposed for drafting standards. INDEX TERMSNetwork theory, importance assessment, standard drafting, AHP. FANGYU CHEN received the Ph.D. degree from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in 2014. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. He has published some academic articles on international journals, including Computers and Industrial Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, and International Journal of Production Research. His current interests include supply chain management, warehouse management, modeling and simulations. MEILING HUANG is currently pursuing the M.S. degree with the School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.

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Section: Standards Of Mobile Communication Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Network Theory-Based Approach for Importance Assessment of Drafters in Standardization

2019

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“…Also, if firms know the basic contours of new technological standards, they might be able to negotiate more effectively with their trading partners. Observing standards making processes could also be a valuable learning experience for developing countries who, after successfully managing the dominant foreign standards acquired, can step by step move towards an improvement/execution stage, and eventually to a planning/proposing standards stage (Choung et al., , Vialle, ).…”

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Inter‐Governmental Regimes and Recruitment to Private Regimes:GATT/WTOand theISO, 1951–2005

Lim

Prakash

2018

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Scholars of international relations and public policy recognize that quasi-private actors supply governance services alongside governmental actors. We explore how membership in the dominant trade regime, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/the World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO) influences countries' incentives to join the quasi-private regime, International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Both global regimes seek to remove trade barriers; the former focuses on tariff and non-tariff obstacles, and the latter on technical barriers. While any firm can subscribe to over 18,000 ISO standards, only national standards bodies, one per country, can become ISO members. We posit that given the substantial political costs of joining GATT/WTO and the relatively low entry barriers to joining the ISO, high trading countries might view the ISO as a (partial) functional equivalent of the GATT/WTO. Our empirical analysis of ISO membership dynamics over the period 1951-2005 lends support to our argument. Policy Implications• When faced with barriers to entry at the dominant trade regime, exporting firms and their governments may consider participating in private regimes to influence the trade environment.• As evidenced in the debates over the reform of UN Security Council and the emergence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the institutional architecture and the rule-making powers of global regimes should reflect the power configurations of the 21st century, and not of the post-World War II order.• Creating private regimes in a policy area requires factoring in potential participants' positions with regard to the existing intergovernmental regimes.• While existing intergovernmental regimes are the key pillars of global governance, their rule-making systems privilege certain perspectives over others. Private regimes can foster polycentricity and bridge democracy deficits by allowing multiple stakeholders to create regimes with different rule structures.

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“…The development of scale economies realized by nurturing domestic demand has been instrumental to the success (Liu and Goldstein 2013). On the other hand, the development of China's proprietary fourth-generation cellular communication standard, TD-LTE-while technologically impressive-has come at the expense of considerable losses, owing to large-scale infrastructural investment and slow consumer response (Vialle, Song and Zhang 2012).…”

Section: Scientific Development and The Keynesian Guise Of The Chinesmentioning

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From Accelerated Accumulation to the Socialist Market Economy : Chinese Economic Discourse and Development from 1953 to Present

Brødsgaard¹,

Rutten²

2017

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Competing with dominant global standards in a catching-up context. The case of mobile standards in China

Cited by 35 publications

References 45 publications

A Network Theory-Based Approach for Importance Assessment of Drafters in Standardization

A Network Theory-Based Approach for Importance Assessment of Drafters in Standardization

Inter‐Governmental Regimes and Recruitment to Private Regimes:GATT/WTOand theISO, 1951–2005

From Accelerated Accumulation to the Socialist Market Economy : Chinese Economic Discourse and Development from 1953 to Present

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