The significance of government's role in technology standardization: Two cases in the wireless communications industry

Journal of Cases on Information Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-73

  Seo, DongBack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CDMA; Japan; Korea; PDC; Role of government; Standardization; Technology standard; Wireless communications technology

Indexed keywords

3G TECHNOLOGY; CDMA; CDMA SYSTEM; DOMESTIC MARKETS; EARLY DECISION; FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS; GLOBAL MARKET; JAPAN; PDC; QUALCOMM; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS; TECHNOLOGY STANDARDIZATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MANUFACTURE; TECHNOLOGY;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 76449089967     PISSN: 15487717     EISSN: 15487725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jcit.2010010105     Document Type: Article

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