Knowledge networks and organizational network legitimacy: lessons from China's Emerging TD-SCDMA Mobility Technology

Brian Low; Wes Johnston

Knowledge networks and organizational network legitimacy: lessons from China's Emerging TD-SCDMA Mobility Technology

Brian Low
, Wes Johnston

School of Business

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Abstract

Emerging technologies are developed in knowledge networks. But as the complexity of these technologies increases, the need to formulate appropriate organizational network legitimacy strategies becomes a strategic issue. Through market, relational, investment and social legitimacy, subsidiaries of multinationals have been known to capture the knowledge circulating through the network webs of relationships. In China's emerging and politically sensitive 3G TD-SCDMA mobility technology, this paper examines how Nokia China remains a key player through these legitimacies. The results suggest that organizational network legitimacy increases the firm's opportunity to participate in this technology because legitimacy facilitates knowledge collection and local interpretation which is valuable in an unpredictable institutional environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handling Plurality of Relationship Forms in Networks: from Clans to Clubs, from Cliques to Communities - Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives: Proceedings of the IMP Conference Euromed Management, held in Marseilles, France, 3-5 Sept., 2009
Publisher	IMP Group
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	11
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	IMP Conference Euromed Management - Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …

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Conference	IMP Conference Euromed Management
Period	1/01/09 → …

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industrial marketing
business networks

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Low, B., & Johnston, W. (2009). Knowledge networks and organizational network legitimacy: lessons from China's Emerging TD-SCDMA Mobility Technology. In Handling Plurality of Relationship Forms in Networks: from Clans to Clubs, from Cliques to Communities - Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives: Proceedings of the IMP Conference Euromed Management, held in Marseilles, France, 3-5 Sept., 2009 (pp. 1-12). IMP Group.

Low, Brian ; Johnston, Wes. / Knowledge networks and organizational network legitimacy: lessons from China's Emerging TD-SCDMA Mobility Technology. Handling Plurality of Relationship Forms in Networks: from Clans to Clubs, from Cliques to Communities - Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives: Proceedings of the IMP Conference Euromed Management, held in Marseilles, France, 3-5 Sept., 2009. IMP Group, 2009. pp. 1-12

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Low, B & Johnston, W 2009, Knowledge networks and organizational network legitimacy: lessons from China's Emerging TD-SCDMA Mobility Technology. in Handling Plurality of Relationship Forms in Networks: from Clans to Clubs, from Cliques to Communities - Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives: Proceedings of the IMP Conference Euromed Management, held in Marseilles, France, 3-5 Sept., 2009. IMP Group, pp. 1-12, IMP Conference Euromed Management, 1/01/09.

Knowledge networks and organizational network legitimacy: lessons from China's Emerging TD-SCDMA Mobility Technology. / Low, Brian; Johnston, Wes.
Handling Plurality of Relationship Forms in Networks: from Clans to Clubs, from Cliques to Communities - Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives: Proceedings of the IMP Conference Euromed Management, held in Marseilles, France, 3-5 Sept., 2009. IMP Group, 2009. p. 1-12.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper

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