Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to establish the importance and approaches in securing an organization's legitimacy from the network community of customers, suppliers and manufacturers, including private investors and state‐owned institutions when marketing their products....

Purpose – The paper aims to identify the challenges faced by Huawei Technologies, China's biggest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, as it makes the transition from an indigenously‐owned business to a potentially competitive global giant. Design/methodology/approach – This is an...

Purpose: Rapid urbanization and the influx of rural residents to urban cities has led to the growth of informal settlements globally. Drawing on institutional theory, this paper aims to examine institutional actors’ legitimacy seeking behaviour to housing issues and their responses to...

The purpose of this paper is to establish the importance and approaches in securing an organization's legitimacy from the network community of customers, suppliers and manufacturers, including private investors and state-owned institutions when marketing their products. The paper presents an...

This paper provides an assessment of the Chinese telecommunications market in transition. It tracks the evolution of the Chinese telecommunications carriers and argues that their economic imperatives, notwithstanding progress, will be slow if they do not exercise the political will in untangling...

The Chinese telecommunications market is undergoing fundamental changes as it moves from state ownership to privatization. These changes have resulted in numerous ambiguous policies being announced, often by the same regulatory body. A key question is how management deals with these ambiguous...

Overview of Value Chain Analysis: Exchange between firms is central to the study of business ? to ? business marketing. Firms perform activities to facilitate these exchanges, principally resources, en route to developing their competitive advantages, in turn creating a basis for...

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...