Studying technology standards in emerging economies provides a unique opportunity to examine the comparative political economy of science, technology, and innovation, as well as to analyze how economic institutions from mature capitalist countries fare when planted in different institutional...

Research since the 1980s has considered the economic and innovation impacts of technology standards policies. This paper extends the research on the impact of standardization policies to consider how the policies themselves, governing how the standards are created, determine standards' impact on...

[The online platform economy in China has grown to become one of the largest in the world, with several Chinese platform firms rivaling their American counterparts in size, revenue, and market capitalization. Their rise has challenged existing businesses and forced governments to find new ways...

This paper explains why many small and medium-sized private high-technology Chinese manufacturing firms survive and thrive within an institutional and political system arrayed against them. We use the mobile phone handset industry as an illustrative case of the vitality and capabilities of...

China's manufacturing and innovation capabilities are directly related. Availability of complementary resources in rapid prototyping, test production and components and the ability to deploy innovations at scale increasingly leads high-technology firms, including startups, to consider China as a...

Global Value Chains (GVC) are a channel for upgrading firm capabilities. Over the last four decades, China has rapidly grown as a result of participation in GVCs. It has become central to global production networks in many industries, accelerating the process of global diffusion of...

This paper addresses the puzzle of how Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the mobile handset industry overcome an environment of “structured uncertainty” and innovate. We find that a combination of the global fragmentation of production and a tacit alliance between local...