...the wireless telecommunications standard-setting organization we study, firms develop new technical specifications in small committees. Our panel data analyses demonstrate that interorganizational network connections influence firms’ decisions to support committees....
Recognition is growing of the importance of including standardization in an academic education. Standardization committees create a defined order applied to a specific application, e.g., a safety standard, a measurement...
...of very large, multi-national cloud computing systems is just beginning. The history of standardization and other large system standards offers valuable lessons on how cloud computing standardization might proceed to...
Digital communications is both pervasive and vital across society. This creates a growing public interest in the technical standards that proscribe public communications. The public is demanding, “Open Standards.” The...
...be brought about by these practices should also be examined. Performing thorough and appropriate analyses will help prevent excessive intervention that could discourage practices that are potentially beneficial for consumers....
For the first time, the IT industry is widely adopting open standards – thanks to the internet...
Consumer electronics: How previous standards wars compare with today’s contest between HD-DVD and Blu-ray....
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the sort of place America’s far-right rages about. It is an arm of the dreaded United Nations; it is populated by a rainbow coalition...
For a decade or more Microsoft’s monopoly of PC operating systems gave it a stranglehold on computing. The technologies now shaping the Internet mean that a single software company is...
...model further classifies standards in terms of the computational process they accommodate and the user function they perform, providing a broad framework for compatibility standards in the information technology arena....