TY - JOUR A1 - Weithmann, Sabrina T1 - Standardization in China: Electric Vehicle Technology as Driver for Change in China’s Automotive Standardization JF - International Journal of Standardization Research (IJSR) N2 - Electric vehicle (EV) development in China emerged with the 863 program (1986) for high technologies and has received support since the 10th Five Year Plan. While standards were of no particular importance in the early years of EV development, standards have increasingly become subject to policies and programs. For instance, the promotion of ‘indigenous' or ‘home-grown' innovation is perceived as means to develop domestic standards and contribute to international standards. Alongside this target, the Chinese government mandated the development of an EV standardization roadmap to serve as a guideline for optimizing standardization work, promoting technical innovation and large-scale industrialization. It was even considered that EV standardization was a novel standard field that has the potential to secure China a forerunner position in technological development as well as international standardization, regardless of standard-setting practices in the conventional automotive sector. Against this background, this paper examines the differences in system set-up and processes of standardization for the traditional automotive and the electric vehicles sector. While conventional automotive standardization is limited to a single sector with the Ministry of Industry of Information Technology and the China Automotive Technology and Research Centre in charge, electric vehicles require the participation of stakeholders from other sectors. Therefore, the negative influence from the conventional decentralized automotive sector on the development of common nationwide standards like the dynamics between national, regional and local actors cannot be deprived. Additionally, this paper also highlights learnings from EV standardization that might set positive impulses for conventional EV standardizations. KW - China KW - Standardization KW - electric vehicles KW - China KW - Elektrofahrzeug KW - Standardisierung Y1 - 2016 VL - 2016 IS - 14 (2) SP - 20 EP - 32 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Weithmann, Sabrina T1 - The Evolvement of Standards in China – Insight from the Electric Vehicle Sectors N2 - This book analyses why Chinese technology standards deviate from international standards. The research it contains is based on four periods of field research in Beijing that involved 70 expert interviews. The data gathered throughout these interviews resulted in a detailed case study on the Chinese standardisation system and particularly the electric vehicle sector. The book’s application of complexity theory shows that the evolvement of deviating standards is a substantial component in the development of the Chinese standardisation system. This is further explained by its use of a ‘Three Phase Standardisation Development Concept’. This book fills a gap in existing research, especially because it focuses on a developing country with a standardisation system that is in transition. KW - China KW - Standardization KW - Normung KW - China KW - Elektrofahrzeug KW - Standardisierung Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-8452-8623-5 PB - Nomos CY - Wiesbaden ER -