期刊
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
卷 54, 期 11, 页码 1904-1919出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0912
关键词
standards; research and development; strategy; wireless telecommunications
资金
- ETLA-BRIE research consortium of the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
- Berkeley Roundtable for the International Economy (University of California at Berkeley)
This study examines cooperative standard setting in wireless telecommunications. Focusing on the competition among firms to influence formal standardization, the roles of standard-setting committees, private alliances, and industry consortia are highlighted. The empirical context is Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), an international standards-development organization in the wireless telecommunication industry. Panel data analyses exploiting natural experiments caused by a consortium merger and entry of Asian firms suggest that participation in industry consortia increases firms' contributions to the development of new technical specifications in 3GPP committees. Moreover, connections to standard-setting peers formed in consortia facilitate change requests to ongoing specifications. These results suggest that if firms in network technology industries want to influence the evolution of their industry, they should identify both formal standard-setting committees and industry consortia in which they can discuss, negotiate, and align positions on technical features with their peers. For policymakers, these results suggest that it is important to ensure that technical consortia remain open for all industry actors and that membership fees do not become prohibitive to small and resource-constrained players.
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