| Title: | OS18-4 A Comparison Study on the Vertical Integration and Horizontal Specialization of Chinese ICT Companies |
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| Publication: | ICAROB2017 |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Pages: | 558-562 |
| ISSN: | 2188-7829 |
| DOI: | 10.5954/ICAROB.2017.OS18-4 |
| Author(s): | Yunju Chen, Yousin Park, Iori Nakaoka |
| Publication Date: | January 19, 2017 |
| Keywords: | patent analysis, social network analysis, Chinese ICT companies, the boundary of the firm, vertical integration, h orizontal specialization |
| Abstract: | The debate between vertical integration vs. horizontal specialization appears to be reinvigorated. The decision of vertical integration or horizontal specialization affects a firm's profit and competitive advantage, especially in the ICT industry which is difficult to create added value due to the commoditization of digital products. The ongoing commoditization of smartphone brings the rising of Chinese ICT companies but these companies adopt different strategies/operation systems to create their own competitive advantages. In this paper, we focus on top-shared Chinese ICT companies in global smartphone industry, Huawei and Xiaomi, to examine how they design their operation systems in R&D and gain competitive advantages, also to compare their systems with each other. The patent information of these two companies is used to visualize their technical orientations and operation systems in R&D by text mining. |
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