' choice of a dominant source for acquiring information and the knowledge about standards. The questionnaire survey research … source for gaining knowledge about standards. Domestic SMEs shape their decisions to hire consultants predominantly because … of a negative perception of standards. The usage of customer inputs as a dominant source for gaining information and …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing …

The literature on quality-management standards has generally focused on the drivers, motivations, and performance … effects of adopting such standards. Yet the last decade has witnessed a substantial degree of decertification behavior, as … organizations have increasingly decided to voluntarily withdraw from qualitymanagement standards by not recertifying. While the …

An overview of the fundamental issues in the production, trade and regulation of organic products. It notes the … changing consumer and trade environments that are driving organics beyond the realm of niche products toward an increasingly … relevant position among other important agricultural standards. Rather than a comprehensive analysis it outlines key elements …

We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade … impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with …

competitiveness perspectives that fuses climate change and trade regimes in potentially problematic ways as governments contemplate … trade actions to manage the environmental and/or competitiveness consequences of differential climate change policies. On … the trade side of this relationship, we have the reality that the GATT/WTO rules were not originally drafted to …

for adverse effects of regulatory heterogeneity on intra-EU trade in the pre-harmonization period, which questions the …

Regulatory standards, such as on health and safety, may be subject to strategic bias when a country engages in trade … can vary standards, there will be a tendency to strategic overregulation, which leads to excessive, rather than inadequate … trade. When there is a mixture of horizontal and vertical quality regulations, the profit-shifting motive for protection is …