Shane Greenstein is the Elinor and Wendell Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Victor Stango is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Introduction Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango; 1. Standard setting in
markets: the Browser war Timothy F. Bresnahan and Pai-Ling Yin; 2.
Competition through institutional form: the case of cluster tool standards
Richard Langlois; 3. The economic realities of open standards: black,
white, and many shades of gray Joel West; 4. Coordination costs and
standard setting: lessons from 56k modems Shane Greenstein and Marc Rysman;
5. Promoting e-business through vertical IS standards: lessons from the US
home mortgage industry Charles Steinfield, Rolf Wigand, M. Lynne Markus and
Gabe Minton; 6. Intellectual property and standardization committee
participation in the US modem industry Neil Gandal, Nataly Gantman and
David Genesove; 7. Manipulating interface standards as an anticompetitive
strategy Jeff MacKie-Mason and Janet Netz; 8. Delay and de jure
standardization: exploring the slowdown in internet standards development
Timothy Simcoe; 9. Standardization: a failing paradigm Carl Cargill and
Sherrie Bolin; 10. Standards battles and public policy Luis Cabral and
Tobias Kretschmer; 11. Switching to digital television: business and public
policy issues Norbert Maier and Marco Ottaviani; 12. Should competition
policy favor compatibility? Joseph Farrell; Index.
