Building ‘mass’ and ‘momentum’ – a latecomer country’s passage to large technological systems – the case of China
| Autor: | Xiaobai Shen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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China
Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Social Sciences(all) Technological system Management Science and Operations Research mass momentum 050905 science studies role of state ComputingMilieux_GENERAL Momentum (finance) large technological systems/infrastructures 0502 economics and business Economics latecomer country distributed governance of innovation 0509 other social sciences Economic system 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Shen, X 2018, ' Building ‘mass’ and ‘momentum’ : A latecomer country’s passage to large technological systems – the case of China ', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management . https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2018.1519184 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3990 0953-7325 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09537325.2018.1519184 |
| Popis: | This paper focuses on how a latecomer country can bring a large (infrastructural) technological system (LTS) to a market already dominated by the entrenched systems of global technology leaders. We construct a conceptual framework, building on Hughes LTS theory (1983) and insights from social studies of technology into the specificities of infrastructural sociotechnical systems to analyse the development of China’s 3rd Generation mobile telephony system. We explore the complex dynamics surrounding the distributed governance of innovation, highlighting changes in key system builders. We note the role of the state in addressing critical problems (“reverse salients”), both in terms of aligning players through legitimating and sense-making and also, building the necessary mass and momentum. This includes a more radical reconfiguring of the field to secure the substantial commitments needed to materialise and embed a new LTS infrastructure. |
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