| Salient constructs of 736 organizations affiliated with 9 associations, forums and alliances in the wireless industry are used to determine consortia points of difference. The comparison of consortia indicates that: (i) support for legacy technologies is focused on optimization, services, and cost reduction, (ii) support for newer technologies is focused on standards, research, hardware, and testing, (iii) two standards are paths of technological adoption, the third standard suggests new market entrants, (iv) motivation for membership to consortia is based on product certification and interoperability. Comparing consortia's identified points of difference to consortia's declared objectives three types of relationships are observed: (i) strong support, with a good mapping between the constructs and the objectives for two consortia, (ii) a definitional role, where the constructs provide suggestions for what six consortia's objectives mean, and (iii) weak support, with a poor mapping between the identified constructs and the objectives for one consortium. |
