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Standards Development as Hybridization

Standards Development as Hybridization

Xiaobai Shen, Ian Graham, James Stewart, Robin Williams
Copyright: © 2013 |Volume: 11 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 12
ISSN: 1539-3062|EISSN: 1539-3054|EISBN13: 9781466634046|DOI: 10.4018/jitsr.2013070103
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Shen, Xiaobai, et al. "Standards Development as Hybridization." IJITSR vol.11, no.2 2013: pp.34-45. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitsr.2013070103

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Shen, X., Graham, I., Stewart, J., & Williams, R. (2013). Standards Development as Hybridization. International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (IJITSR), 11(2), 34-45. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitsr.2013070103

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Shen, Xiaobai, et al. "Standards Development as Hybridization," International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research (IJITSR) 11, no.2: 34-45. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitsr.2013070103

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Abstract

While users in the rest of the World have been offered 3G mobile phones based on either the CDMA2000 or W-CDMA standards, users in China have the additional option of using phones based on the TD-SCDMA standard. As a technology largely developed by Chinese actors and only implemented in China, TD-SCDMA has been seen as an “indigenous innovation” orchestrated by the Chinese government and supported by Chinese firms. This paper adopts a science and technology studies (STS) framework to explore how global and national institutional and social elements have been embedded in and impacted on the artifacts of TD-SCDMA technology. Rather than being an indigenous Chinese technology, TD-SCDMA’s history exemplifies how standards and the intellectual property embedded in them lead to a complex hybridization between the global and national systems of innovation.

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