Standards and Public Policy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Greenstein, Shane

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Technological standards are a cornerstone of the modern information economy, affecting firm strategy, market performance and, by extension, economic growth. While there is general agreement that swift movement to superior technological standards is a worthwhile goal, there is much less agreement on the central policy questions: do markets choose efficient standards? How do standards organizations affect the development of standards? And finally, what constitutes appropriate public policy toward standards? In this volume, leading researchers in public policy on standards, including both academics and industry experts, focus on these key questions. Given the dearth of applied work on standards and public policy, this volume significantly advances the frontier of knowledge in this critical but understudied area. It will be essential reading for academic and industrial researchers as well as policymakers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511258275
• Artikelnr.: 38210051

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.