Politiques internationales de normalisation : Quelques jalons pour la recherche empirique

Technical standards take such a big part in our daily life (cars, mobile phones, food and so on) that it seems to become an invisible phenomenon. The construction of these standards is mainly embedded in international arenas and networks. Scholars still know few of actors and know-how in this area. The paper tries to analyze simultaneously the innovation processes of firms, the standard-making work, and the structuring of markets. The analytical frame links together science studies frameworks and Schumpeterian political economy. We assume that standard-making processes can be analyzed as paths through which files are monopolized.