Research On The Evolution Of Corporation Technology Standards

With the coming of the knowledge era, standards war has become more and more fierce. Whoever wins, he will gain vast markets and economic benefits. As a result, governments and Multinationals of developed countries have been competing with each other, increasing their efforts to study standards so as to win the initiative in the standards competition.After entering WTO, Chinese markets has been opened completely, which results in impacts on many industries in China. Therefore, it is a realistic problem for us how to use the principles regarding technical standards to protect ourselves from foreign products and techniques. However, due to the lack of theoretic tutorials in this respect, many enterprises in China failed to get right direction on the way of competing in technology standards war. Therefore, this study focuses on analyzing the evolution processes of technology standards in several corporations, discussing universal models of the evolution processes and their influential factors.Firstly, beginning with review of literature on development approaches and evolution processes of technology standards, this study summarizes some key research concepts, clarifies the research targets, defines the research rationales as well as concludes the evolution mechanism of the research targets and the influential factors. On the basis of the above endeavor, this study then puts forward a conceptual model of the enterprise technology standards evolution, attempting to provide a frame that describes the situation and development approaches of enterprise technology standards, and specifies how to transform the technology standards, the influential factors and the characteristics and methods of the technology standards evolution.Secondly, this study chooses four typical companies for case studies, depicting and analyzing evolution approaches and methods of technology standards in these companies. Based on the results of the case studies, this study makes comparisons among the four companies in terms of the evolution processes of technology standards, sums up their similarities and disparities, attempts to find out the reasons and therefore turns out the universal regulation for the evolution processes of the technology standards.Finally, the main conclusions from the research are drawn with its practical value explained and its expectation for the future made.