Advanced topics in information technology standards and standardization research. Volume 1

This series of books features the most current research findings in all aspects of IT standardization research, from a diversity of angles, traversing the traditional boundaries between individual disciplines. Volume 1 presents a collection of chapters addressing a variety of aspects related to IT s...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Jakobs, Kai, 1957-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. IT standards typology / Henk J. de Vries
  • 2. Open standards requirements / Ken Krechmer
  • 3. Block alliances and the formation of standards in the ITC industry / Alfred G. Warner
  • 4. Standardization and other coordination mechanisms in open source software / Tineke M. Egyedi, Ruben van Wendel de Joode
  • 5. Beyond consortia, beyond standardization? Redefining the consortium problem / Tineke M. Egyedi
  • 6. Standardization and competing consortia : the trade-off between speed and compatibility / Marc van Wegberg
  • 7. When is standardization slow? / M.H. Sherif
  • 8. Ready
  • set
  • slow : a view from inside a CEN working group / Jürgen Wehnert
  • 9. Patent & antitrust problems revisited in the context of wireless networking / Gary Lea
  • 10. Intellectual property protection and standardization / Knut Blind, Nikolaus Thumm
  • 11. Standards for telecommunication services / M.H. Sherif
  • 12. Tightrope walking : standardization meets local work-practice in a hospital / Gunnar Ellingsen
  • 13. Unified citation management and visualization using open standards : the open citation system / Mark Ginsburg
  • 14. Standardization and network externalities / Sangin Park
  • 15. Network effects and diffusion theory : extending economic network analysis / Tim Weitzel ... [et al.]
  • 16. How high-technology start-up firms may overcome direct and indirect network externalities / Mark Pruett ... [et al.]
  • 17. In pursuit of interoperability / Scott Moseley, Steve Randall, Anthony Wiles.