Chinese firms bridging the standardization gap in 3GPP: liabilities of outsidership and the role of technological shifts
研究了中国企业在3GPP标准化网络中面临的外部者劣势，发现从3G到4G的技术变革帮助它们加强与亚太地区伙伴的合作，从而缩小标准化差距。
Abstract Chinese firms often face liabilities of outsidership, struggling to access established global technology development networks. Focusing on technical standardization, we analyze how generational technology shifts affect collaboration in 3GPP, the body developing global telecommunication standards. Employing fractional logit regressions on a standards contribution panel dataset, we observe that Chinese firms strengthened their collaboration in standardization networks following the shift from 3G to 4G, particularly with geographically and institutionally proximate partners in the Asia-Pacific. This narrowed the standardization gap, leading us to conclude that technological shifts within collaborative networks might offer opportunities for late entrants to become standard setters.