...action frames depended on their compatibility with user practices. Our analysis challenges standard arguments about regime complexity providing more leverage to well-endowed actors by highlighting the transformative dimension of resource...
...have conducted more complicated tests that imply closer agreement between E and mc2 than the NIST/MIT work. However, “additional assumptions” are required to interpret their results, making these previous tests...
...process. As a case study, it examines the rapidly emerging Digital Rights Management (DRM) standardized technology. Arguably, for network environments, current developments show that technical standards are now going through...
...system, data communication, messaging, and common syntax level, the common semantics required for application integration has not been developed. The standardization of common semantics depends on particular vertical industries such...
...on litigation, disputes, or market outcomes. This study explores novel empirical evidence by creating and examining a unique data-set on recent litigation in the smart phone industry to inform the...
In order to create Internet standards, people and ideas move across many institutions. By drawing upon the new institutionalism and on organizational ecology, we develop an ecological approach to studying...
...more firmly established and biosecurity practices governing commercial orders for synthetic DNA have been widely adopted. Among standards-setting groups within the synthetic biology community, most have expressed a preference that...
This NERA study explores the ways in which the internet and mobile computing have enabled small businesses in Australia to operate more efficiently and to compete more effectively in their...
...second technology. Thus, the degree of substitutability itself appears as an endogenous variable. This analysis provides a new basis for understanding technological competition and completes economic modelling of the competition....
This paper examines the strategic use of standardization policy to give domestic firms and technology sellers an advantage, especially when competing for foreign markets. Can the imposition of a standard...