The American system of standardization has strong traditions of voluntarism, local control, meritocracy, rights to prevent one’s own interests, and a marked preference for private coordination of commercial activity. By...
Standards have everything to do with change. They hold change in check by fixing certain parts of a technology. They also allow innovation to happen in a controlled way by...
...result, only scattered, selective, and in some cases haphazard mechanisms exist to permit the global community to intervene (if so inclined) to protect the rights of the individual against the...
...actions. That oversight is provided under an expanding multi-layered, overlapping infrastructure of global and regional commissions, institutions and courts that are still largely supplemental to, rather than empowered to supersede...
The importance of standardisation is growing. This might be reflected in a growth of standardisation education. In this paper we will elaborate on education in the field of standardisation.
The development and diffusion of network markets and underlying standards is an important domain in IS research. Yet, there is no sound theory nor practice to fully understand the complex...
Whether government should incline towards leading, following or simply getting out of the way [in standard setting] is a matter upon which there are likely to be strongly held differences...
...increasingly based upon information and communications technology, however, are far different, and include demands for faster standards development, less vulnerability to uncooperative owners of necessary patent claims, and a greater...
The most intimidating and intractable issue the leaders of the Group of 8 will face when they meet in Heiligandamm, Germany this week may well be global warming, a reality...
The lesson of the “tragedy of the commons” is that property that is communally owned is doomed to over-exploitation. This often observed phenomenon is reinforced by current property laws and...