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

Reviews

'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