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This chapter attempts to reveal the ideology of standardization of Chinese enterprises in the context of technology. Considering standardization commands the combination of technological development with business strategies and meantime the relatively deficiency in technological accumulation of actors from China, we argue that users’ needs as well as the strategies of technological innovation, i.e. indigenous innovation and external innovation, are core to standards setting of Chinese enterprises. Our empirical investigation’s primary methodology is cases study of Huawei and Haier, two China-based global leading enterprises. The results show that users are highlighted to be centered around in standardization and research activities and especially users play a vital role in cooperative R&D within standards setting. In addition, besides in-house innovation is indispensable for gaining proprietary technology, external cooperation along the industry chain is critical for Chinese manufacturers in order to speed up the process of standards formulation. Our findings have important implications for the management strategies of Chinese enterprises engaged in standardization.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71673080; 71203061) and the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2015JJ6016).
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Fang, F. (2018). Ideology of Standardization in Context of Technology. In: Foo, C. (eds) Diversity of Managerial Ideology. The Chinese Management Book-of-Readings Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7772-2_6
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