Title
A pattern of enhancing innovative knowledge capabilities: Case study of a Chinese telecom manufacturer.
Abstract
During the 1990s Chinese telecommunication (telecom) manufacturing firms attempted to enhance their innovative knowledge capabilities by concentrating efforts on technological importation and assimilation. In order to improve indigenous technological innovation capability, Chinese firms enhanced their capabilities by accumulating and reactivating firm-specific knowledge. This paper attempts to explore the growth trajectory of some Chinese telecom firms' technological capabilities. Often the catching-up of a firm's technological capability is a trade-off process between the frequent accumulation of technical knowledge and the infrequent leapfrogging of the comprehensive technological capability. To explain the catching-up trajectory of technological evolution the Chinese telecom manufacturing sector was selected. A conceptual framework of the catching-up of technological capabilities is proposed. The framework and the implicit logic of technological catching-up are analyzed through a theoretical lens. A detailed empirical study of a Chinese telecom manufacturer is then presented to validate the capability catching-up pattern.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1080/09537320500211532
TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
conceptual framework,empirical study
Assimilation (phonology),Economics,Technological evolution,Manufacturing sector,Telecommunications,Knowledge management,Manufacturing firms,Conceptual framework,Leapfrogging,Marketing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17.0
3
0953-7325
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.54
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiang Wei164.08
Khaleel Malik2113.55
Yongyi Shou356.33