...even as potential competitors agree to cooperate on its creation. Our exploration of Sun Microsystems’s sponsorship of its Java technology suggests that standards-in-the-making generate seeds of self-destruction. Our study also...
...settings side-effects may be interpreted as apparitions of the reflexive nature of the standardization process. Accordingly, attempts to standardize may reinforce complexity. The research question is addressed by providing an...
...game theory to understand the discrepancy between local and global efficiency in standardization decisions and later applied to a network of six enterprises as part of an extensive case study....
Those that study standards development and utilization have adopted a variety of methods to make their investigations more disciplined and their observations more meaningful. One of these techniques is the...
Based on the study of historical standards wars, the authors have identified several generic strategies and winning tactics to help companies fighting the battles of today and tomorrow in the...
We construct a theoretical framework to study the impact of asymmetric quality standards on used durable goods on trade flows, profits and consumer welfare. We show that asymmetry in quality...
...of traditional pollutants, given that CAFE standards are successful in inducing manufacturers to engage in technology forcing. The study then examines CAFE standards from a cost-benefit and a cost-effectiveness viewpoint....
...given: a billion-dollar reconstruction of an urban expressway, a complex bridge on an interstate expressway, and a successful proposal for the rehabilitation of a complex, 60-year-old viaduct in the heart...
...of structural change through formal and informal power and regulatory practices. It presents preliminary results of a major research project, which combines cross-institutional and sectoral analyses. It examines the most...
Most research on open source software communities has focused on those that are community founded. More recently, firms have founded their own open source communities. How do sponsored open source...