Global Competition Between and Within Standards The Case of Mobile Phones

by Funk, Jeffrey L.

• ISBN13: 9780333970393
• ISBN10: 033397039X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book shows how the hybrid model, which uses both market and committee mechanisms, explains standard setting and firm competition in the mobile communications industry. The hybrid model explains why certain mobile communication standards like GSM have become global standards while others, for example digital standards supposed by US firms, have not become global standards. The hybrid model also explains why Nokia is the leading producer of mobile phones and Ericsson the leading producer of mobile infrastructure.

Author Biography

Jeffrey L. Funk is Associate Professor of Business at Kobe University's Research Institute for Economics and business.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Key Theoretical Issues in Competition Within and Between Standards	p. 21
Market and Committee Mechanisms in Setting Global Standards	p. 36
Committee- and Market-Based Competition in the Mobile Infrastructure Market	p. 93
Committee and Particularly Market Competition in the Mobile Phone Market	p. 145
Third Generation and Mobile Internet Standards and Competition in Third Generation Infrastructure and Phones	p. 206
A Proposed Model of Technological Change	p. 246
Interviews	p. 260
Analysis of the First 20 GSM Orders	p. 262
Example of Standard Setting in Other Industries That Require High Investments	p. 264
Large Investments and Interface Ambiguities: The Internet	p. 270
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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