Forming Of Enterprises' Standardization Competitiveness Based On Lean Thinking

Economic globalization has changed the characteristics of international competition, which means the expansion of product-based patents and technical standards has taken the place of product flow in the world market. The coming of information economy society, accelerating technology innovation and network tendency of technological competition have stimulating standards competition into a new form of market competition. Standards competition has obvious network effects and always bundles with intellectual properties and patents, which would influence the economic interests of industry and even the nation. Controlling standards has becoming the new contest of national sovereignty. More and more leading enterprises have regarding standards competition as a basic strategy and gained unique competitive advantages. Chinese enterprises are trying to transform the role of adopting international standards passively into drafting international standards actively, so as to change the assembling position of the end of industry chain.Under the instruction of lean thinking, the dissertation analyzes the whole process of forming standardization competitiveness in order to propose the theoretical foundation and strategic decision references for standards competing enterprises. The core is how to supply the right standards in the right technologies at the right time in the right condition with the right forming mechanisms for the right cost and with the right resources to the right users.The dissertation is composed of seven chapters. Chapter 1 and chapter 2 are the introduction and previous research summarization. Chapter 3 puts forward the concept of standardization competitiveness on the basis of core competence and regards the lean thinking as the guiding ideology. Chapter 4 builds the complex model of stake-holders such as users, complementary producers, competitors, government and standards developing organizations. Chapter 5 analyzes the costs and profits of developers and followers separately. Chapter 6 compares the forming mechanisms of de jure standards and de facto standards and proposes some competition strategies. Chapter 7 elaborates the leaning principles, analyzes the forces and barriers of Chinese's enterprises taking part in standards competition, and puts forward some strategies of forming standardization competitiveness, then gives the evidence analysis of Chinese EVD standard.