This paper aims to show that the organizations of standardization participate to an institutional dynamics which contributes to sustainable development. It is based on economic approaches and on an analysis of the project of ISO 26000 ? guidance standard for social responsibility. Standards and...

[eng] The article proposes a survey of the economic literature in order to define a theoretical setting to standardization and certification. Two distinct approaches of the firm are mobilized. The first conceives the firm like an answer to a problem of incomplete information. Standardization...