...of eLearning rises a great demand on the use of a consistent set of standards. This paper describes the efforts made in China to create a comprehensive framework of eLearning...
Among the most significant behaviors in the United States today is one of the least known and least understood: private regulatory conduct, commonly called standard setting. The federal government has...
E-government is about transforming the way government interacts with the governed. The process is neither quick nor simple. It requires a coherent strategy, beginning with an examination of the nation’s...
If code is law then standards bodies are governments. This flawed but powerful metaphor suggests the need to examine more closely those standards bodies that are defining standards for the...
This paper investigates several competition policy questions related to standard-setting organizations (SSOs). Are compatibility standards agreed upon by competitors generally in the public interest? Should competition policy generally favor patent-holders...
...fair reasonable and non-discriminatory terms to manufacturers of standard-compliant products. However, these commitments may not be sufficient to prevent patent hold-up in practice. In this paper, we develop a simple...
...question how similar or how different IP rights are, and should be, treated differently from property rights on tangibles both in theory and in practice. In the context of propertization...
...(investors and market interme-diaries) over the interests of the reports preparers (large audit firms and their managers). Nonetheless, the FASB remains vulnerable to the allega-tion that its complex, rules-based standards...
As consumer use of ICT products grows, the importance of ICT standards in consumer markets also grows. While standards for manufactured products were once developed at the national level in...
...job being substitutes for the purpose of signaling. Results naturally apply to other industries with high and low visibility jobs, e.g. academic rather than commercial research, consulting rather than management....