Transitioning from fast-follower to innovator: The institutional foundations of the Korean telecommunications sector
| العنوان: | Transitioning from fast-follower to innovator: The institutional foundations of the Korean telecommunications sector |
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| المؤلفون: | Sung-Young Kim |
| المصدر: | Review of International Political Economy. 19:140-168 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Economics and Econometrics, Government, Sociology and Political Science, Information economy, Technological change, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Promotion (rank), Industrialisation, Developmental state, Political Science and International Relations, Global network, Openness to experience, Economics, Economic system, Telecommunications, business, media_common |
| الوصف: | In a world of rapid technological change and increasing interdependence between national and global networks, what institutions are necessary to facilitate the execution of a developmental project? An increasingly popular view expects the East Asian model of development to be ill-equipped to deal with the challenges involved in the information economy while the institutions of a ‘developmental network state’ are argued to be of greater utility. This paper tests this view in light of a dramatic shift in the business strategy of Korean firms in the telecommunications sector in the early years of the twenty-first century. I argue that core features of the Korean model have been recombined in creative and unanticipated ways to meet the twin challenges of economic openness and knowledge-based industrialisation. The argument is developed through an examination of the Korean government's promotion of a novel Korean-developed mobile broadcasting standard. I identify and trace the emergence of the institu... |
| تدمد: | 1466-4526 0969-2290 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::b5c96b5d7288370f12e186c246cacb4d https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2010.503125 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........b5c96b5d7288370f12e186c246cacb4d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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