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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Edited by Tineke M. Egyedi, Delft Institute for Research on Standardization, the Netherlands and Knut Blind, Professor of Innovation Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin and Head of the Business Unit Innovation and Regulation, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany

Review :
'Contributions to this volume by experienced economists, social scientists, engineers and computer scientists lay an interdisciplinary basis for understanding the cause and impact of standards dynamics. Intriguing questions and convincing responses reveal the practical and the scientific implications of change. An excellent collection of articles!'- Raymund Werle, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies'This is an important new book that directly addresses probably the most significant and longstanding lacuna in our understanding of standards ... In many respects, the contributors set out a new paradigm for the investigation of standards. They open the door to new kinds of questions about the function and role of standards in rapidly changing technological and business environments and new approaches to the investigation of standardisation phenomena. The scientific implications will be far reaching.'- From the foreword by Richard Hawkins


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  • ISBN-13: 9781847204868
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • ISBN-10: 1847204864
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 156 mm


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