The dynamics of standards

edited by Tineke Egyedi (Delft Institute for Research on standardization, the Netherlands) and Knut Blind (Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin and Innovation and Technology Transfer department, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Germany)

This book addresses the new field of standards dynamics. It focuses in particular on the tension between standards and change. Standards are points of reference and should therefore be inherently stable (at least to a certain degree). However, technologies change at an increasing pace, particularly in the field of information technology (IT). This requires the development of more standards and more updates, and leads to increased competition between standards. In many situations problems arise, such as how to retain compatibility if standards keep on changing and whether to adopt the new version. If standards are related, how does changing one standard affect the others? The contributing authors gathered here analyse the causes and scale of change in order to demonstrate how to prevent, reduce and cope with its negative impact. Addressing a number of highly up-to-date issues including the sustainability of documents and data, this book will be of great interest to those concerned with innovation, management of technology and the emerging field of standardization studies. In addition, standard-setting organizations and policymakers should be aware of the ambivalence of standards dynamics

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Year of publication:	2008
Other Persons:	Egyedi, Tineke M. (ed.) ; Blind, Knut (ed.)
Institutions:	Edward Elgar Publishing (publisher)
Publisher:	Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (xx, 208 pages)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Foreword -- 1. General Introduction / Tineke M. Egyedi and Knut Blind -- Part I: The problem of changing standards -- 2. The sustainability of digital data: Tension between the dynamics and longevity of standards / Kees van der Meer -- 3. An implementation perspective on sources of incompatibility and standards' dynamics / Tineke M. Egyedi -- Part II: Causes of change -- 4. + vs -: Dynamics and effects of competing standards of recordable DVD-media / Stephan Gauch -- 5. Internet addressing standards: A case study in standards dynamics driven by bottom-up adoption / Jos Vrancken, Marnix Kaart and Michel Soares -- 6. Incompatible successors: The failure to graft xml onto sgml / Tineke M. Egyedi and Arjan Loeffen -- Part III: Change in an implementation context -- 7. The IEEE 802.11 WLAN installation at RWTH Aachen University: A case of voluntary vendor lock-in / Kai Jakobs -- 8. A case study of the adoption and implementation of step / Josephine W. Thomas, Steve Probets, Ray Dawson and Tim King -- Part IV: Scale of change -- 9. How stable are it standards? / Tineke M. Egyedi and Petra Heijnen -- 10. Factors influencing the lifetime of telecommunication and information technology standards / Knut Blind -- Part V: Conclusion -- 11. Conclusion / Tineke M. Egyedi -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN:	978-1-0353-0554-4 ; 978-1-84720-486-8
Other identifiers:	10.4337/9781035305544 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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