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The mobile communication technology has evolved from the first generation (1G), when the first radiotelephone service was introduced in the US in late 1940s, to the third generation (3G). In each generation, different standards and technologies were promoted by technologically and economically advanced countries. For example, the major 1G communication standards were: AMPS promoted by the US, NMT promoted by Nordic countries, and TACS promoted by the UK. The second generation (2G) communication standards include GSM promoted by the European countries and CDMA (IS-95) promoted by the US. Behind these different standards, there are entire industry chains and huge profits. To catch up with these forerunners, lagging countries usually need to go through different stages including duplicative imitation, creative imitation, and then real innovation. In the 1G era, China did not have its own standard, but it adopted the British TACS systems. In the 2G era, China did not have its own standard, and it adopted both the European GSM systems and the US CDMA systems. However, when the 3G era was approaching, China decided to seize the opportunity and developed its own 3G standard: TD-SCDMA. In January 2009, China issued three different 3G licenses to three different operators who utilized TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, and CDMA2000, respectively. The Chinese proposed 3G standard began to be commercialized with this first licensee. China has been trying to catch up with the leading countries in the mobile communication industry. This thesis examines the question of whether this catching-up process was successful or not. The purpose of this thesis is to give readers insights into the Chinese 3G market, and to help them to understand the catching-up process being undertaken by China’s mobile communication industry. The thesis first introduces some background information about 3G, TD-SCDMA, and the Chinese telecom market. Then, it reviews theories of technological catching-up and leapfrogging. After that, it presents a case study of the TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance that examines six determinants measuring the catching-up process: Sources for Competitive Advantages, Strategies and Policies, R&D Efforts, R&D Outcome, and Market Success. The final part of the thesis gives answers to the research question and reveals the profound impact brought by the catching-up process of China’s mobile industry.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:53:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TatianeNVA_DISSERT.pdf: 3468564 bytes, checksum: 61054784880838e257b7b4ec92f7d624 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-08 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / In an environment of constant change, technological developments, market competition and more informed consumers, the search for a lasting relationship through the conquest of loyalty has become the objective of companies. However, several authors suggest that this loyalty can be affected by negative comments available on the internet. Therefore, this dissertation has as objective to examine if the complaints are available on the internet impact the loyalty to a brand of mobile phone. The research used as the basis the Expanded NCSB model suggest by Johnson et al. (2001), studying five prominent drives of loyalty: image/brand reputation, affective commitment, calculative commitment, perceived value and trust, beyond the satisfaction construct as moderator variable. The research method adopted was the experimental design which included 285 undergraduate students, with the trial which included 285 undergraduate students, with the field study of the mobile industry, specifically, the brands of cell phones. The research approach was quantitative and methods were descriptive statistics, factor analysis, cluster analysis, linear regression and non-parametric test of Wilcoxon for data analysis. Of the 16 hypothesis stemmed from the research model proposed, 12 were confirmed. The results showed that the complaint available on the internet, here represented by the available on the site Reclame Aqui, may impact consumer perceptions about brand loyalty, as well as its antecedents, being that these complaints can affect all the consumers, regardless of historical satisfaction with the brand. It also noted the positive relationship between the independent variables trust, image/brand reputation, perceived value, affective commitment and calculative commitment and the dependent variable - loyalty, even when considering the data obtained after exposure to the complaint. However, no unanimous conclusion that the relationship between these variables was strongest in the group with satisfactory experience. At the first moment of the research, the trust was the most important variable for the formation of loyalty. However, after exposure to treatment, the image/brand reputation, was more relevant. Contributions of the study, limitations and recommendations for future researches are approached in the present investigation / Em um ambiente em constante muta??o, evolu??o tecnol?gica, competitividade no mercado e consumidores mais exigentes e informados, a busca de um relacionamento duradouro atrav?s da conquista da lealdade passou a ser o objetivo das empresas. No entanto, diversos autores sugerem que essa lealdade pode ser afetada pelos coment?rios negativos dispon?veis no ambiente online. Assim, esta disserta??o tem como objetivo geral examinar se as reclama??es dispon?veis no ambiente online impactam a lealdade a uma marca de aparelho celular. A pesquisa utilizou como base parte do modelo NCSB Ampliado proposto por Johnson et al. (2001), estudando cinco proeminentes condutores da lealdade: imagem/reputa??o da marca, comprometimento afetivo, comprometimento calculado, valor percebido e confian?a, al?m do construto satisfa??o, como vari?vel moderadora. O m?todo de pesquisa adotado foi o experimental que contou com a participa??o de 285 alunos de gradua??o, tendo como campo de estudo o setor de telefonia m?vel, especificamente, as marcas de aparelhos celulares. A abordagem de pesquisa foi quantitativa e foram utilizados m?todos da estat?stica descritiva, an?lise fatorial, an?lise de conglomerado, regress?o linear e teste n?o-param?trico de Wilcoxon para a an?lise dos dados. Das 16 hip?teses estabelecidas a partir do modelo de pesquisa proposto, 12 foram confirmadas. Os resultados comprovaram que as reclama??es dispon?veis no ambiente online, aqui representadas pelas dispon?veis no site Reclame Aqui, podem impactar a percep??o dos consumidores acerca da lealdade ? marca, assim como seus antecedentes, sendo que essas queixas podem afetar todos os consumidores, independentemente do hist?rico de satisfa??o com a marca. Tamb?m foi constatado o relacionamento positivo entre as vari?veis independentes confian?a, imagem/reputa??o da marca, valor percebido, comprometimento afetivo e comprometimento calculado - e a vari?vel dependente - lealdade, mesmo quando considerados os dados obtidos ap?s a exposi??o a reclama??o. No entanto, n?o houve constata??o un?nime de que o relacionamento entre essas vari?veis era mais forte no grupo com experi?ncia satisfat?ria. No primeiro momento da pesquisa, a confian?a foi a vari?vel mais importante para a forma??o da lealdade. Todavia, ap?s a exposi??o ao tratamento, a imagem/reputa??o da marca, mostrou-se mais relevante. Contribui??es do estudo, limita??es e recomenda??es para pesquisas futuras s?o abordadas no presente trabalho

Context: The Telecommunication industry has experienced a great revolution since last decade. Mobile devices become the new fashion trend and play a vital role in every one´s life. Due to this reason, major industry experts predict the upcoming time to be the time of Mobile Industry. The success of mobile industry is by and large dependent on its consumers. Therefore it is necessary for the vendors to focus on their target audience i.e. what are the needs and requirements of their consumers and how they feel and perceive about their products. UX evaluation of mobile products and services (MPS) can help the organizations for developing more user friendly products and services that can meet the user expectations, needs and acceptance. Objectives: In this thesis study, one of our main focuses was to explore different definitions and concepts of UX present in academia, ISO and other standards. Also, we were interested to identify different UXEMs and the UX role in mobile industry in order to develop a better understanding about the importance of UX in the success of Mobile products and services (MPS). Methods: An exploratory case study was carried out to answer the research questions of this thesis study. At the end, the results of the case study were evaluated from a workshop, held at Ericsson AB (Karlskrona). On the basis of case study and workshop, final results are presented. Results: During this thesis study, we have proposed an initial framework to understand UX. We have also proposed a toolkit of UXEMs that can provide guideline about UXEMs i.e. which UXEM is suitable for which factor of UX and during which phase of development life cycle. Conclusions: In academia (literature), different definitions and terminologies are present for UX but still no consensus is found on one single definition of UX. In academia, different authors have identified different UX factors that may influence the UX in adoption of MPS. Through Case Study, we identified different UXEMs and UX evaluation criteria that are used to capture the UX. We have presented different UX factors that need to be focused for evaluating UX in Mobile Industry. We conclude that there is a need of such UXEM or UXEMs that can capture the broader picture of UX as most of the identified UXEMs were only useful to measure some of the UX factors. After conducting workshop at Ericsson AB (Karlskrona), we conclude that there is need to make industry and academia more closer for developing good understanding about UX i.e. still industry people are not much familiar with different UXEMs and UX factors .