國際企業學系暨研究所學術演講

演講資訊如下 :

Ø   演講時間 : 10:30~12:00

Ø   演講地點 : 管壹814會議室

Ø   演講主題 :

Made in China 2025? Contested professionalism at China’s patent office

Ø   主題摘要 :

When and how do professionals maintain their professional values that are challenged by other institutional logics such as nationalism? To examine this question, we attend to the roles played by the audiences of a profession and study patent examiners in China who face strong state pressures following the introduction of the Made in China 2025 plan. Through weaving insights from the professional identity literature and extensive interviews with current and former examiners, we develop an audience-based framework. We then test our hypotheses with 14,387 patent examiners and their 1,999,403 examination cases before and after the introduction of Made in China 2025. Our mixed-method analyses show that when confronted with nationalism, Chinese examiners are cognitively and normatively motivated to maintain their professional practices when interacting with foreign peers who recognize and anchor professionalism or with repeated applicants who require consistency in examiners’ behavior. Our research highlights the importance of professionals’ simultaneous responses to multiple audience group in a unique research setting, therefore contributing to the literatures on professionalism and institutional logics. Furthermore, our study provides nuanced insights into the impact and implementation of major national policies, offering valuable implications for both theory and practice in the realm of professional identity maintenance under institutional pressures.