Electronic mail is particularly tolerant of the sometimes challenging HF radio communications medium. Its latency tolerance and store-and-forward delivery mechanism cope naturally with slow links and the occasional outage. This...
Until the 1980s standards setting had been primarily an internal matter for firms or the domain of private sector technical bodies at the national level. Each country produced its own...
...technology innovation between two different organizations. The factors under study include compatibility, relative advantage, environmental and three control variables: 1) Seller versus Buyer; 2) technology conversion type; and 3) location...
In this essay, I address two common and seemingly unconnected beliefs about the market role for standards: The first belief is that despite increasing knowledge and study, standardization strategy has...
Despite a vast economics literature on standards and a growing literature on open innovation communities, there exists little research on how firms should participate in open standards communities. In this...
This report quantifies and analyses participation in standards development within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO is perhaps the world’s largest and best known developer of international standards, with...
...study, we examine how job mobility affects firm influence in a technical standards setting committee for U.S. wireless telecommunications. We hypothesize and find that hiring individuals who are richer in...
...as compared to middle and low income countries. Similarly, the effect is stronger in case of upper middle income countries as compared to lower middle income and low income countries....
This study stems from a request from the European standards bodies Comit European de Normalisation (CEN European Committee for Standardization) and Comit European de Normalisation Electrotechnique (CENELEC European Committee for...
In this paper we analyze the timing of patent disclosure by a patent holder during the process of industry standard setting. In a non-cooperative model of communication with asymmetric information...