...operational efficiency. Against this background, the paper critically examines the contribution of ISO 26000 to the strategic management processes of different types of companies. This allows the potential of ISO...
...to do so on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms (RAND). The standard setting literature includes a substantial focus on the widespread use of this RAND promise. A common refrain in these...
This paper looks at the relations that exist between standardisation and user-side innovation, and how the former may shape the latter. The necessary background information will be followed by a...
In the last 20 years, German courts have developed a sophisticated approach to compulsory licensing of patents. Compulsory licences under competition law are of particularly high relevance. In short, German...
This article interrogates the processes and politics of standard setting in human rights. It traces the history of the human rights project and critically explores how the norms of the...
This paper analyses the various contours of the trade-labor linkage in the context of the rapid growth of the world trading system, and argues for a multifaceted approach in order...
...greater emphasis on accuracy and precision science, and the steady march of industrialization further underlined the importance of standards for establishing competitive advantages in the industrial age. In the Information...
In the early 1990s, the computer, entertainment, and communications trade press began to devote increasing attention to the “information infrastructure.” Although no one vision for the information infrastructure emerged, the...
Standards are fundamental to any rigorous form of communications and are used in every civilization. Given that mathematics provides a rigorous way to understand very basic phenomena, this paper explores...
Proceeding from theoretical hypotheses, driving forces for the introduction of the ISO 9000ff series in innovative service companies are analysed. Based on the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS), a probit...