We study institutional entrepreneurship in an emergent field by analyzing the case of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its efforts to purposefully institutionalize the practice of sustainability reporting. We...
...as “Abstention, with comments” while the newer members voted overwhelmingly “Yes, with comments” and against “Abstention with comments.” This is not surprising since the new members were largely Microsoft business...
...and Harvard, with professors and students that come up with great inventions that new companies can be formed to commercialize. We also have lots of folks that have done it before, that...
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have provided much useful guidance to businesses and their counselors setting up and managing patent pools in recent years. We now all...
Open source software (OSS) development teams use informal communication to coordinate their work towards common goals. According to software engineering folklore, the architecture and the organization of the final product...
W3C, the Unicode Technical Committee, INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards), NISO (National Information Standards Organization), Health Level Seven (HL7), the Internet Architecture Board, and IPTC have recently published...
...standards in American Trucking Association v. Whitman (ATA v. Whitman) maintained that requiring the EPA to set air quality standards at the level that is requisite to protect the public...
The XML based OpenDocument format represents our document future because of the part it will play in the practice of digital preservation. The National Archives of Australia took part in...
...this pledge from those of his predecessors was his commitment to go beyond soft promises of greater candor in press conferences and fewer assertions of privilege. This administration, he pledged,...
...and hence receives only limited high-level policy support. However, technical standards contribute at least as much as patents to economic growth. As a key mechanism for the diffusion of technological...