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Information technology standards and standardization a global perspective /

In light of the emerging global information infrastructure, information technology standards are becoming increasingly important. At the same time, however, the standards setting process has been criticized as being slow, inefficient and out of touch with market needs. What can be done to resolve th...

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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), c2000.
Subjects:
Information technology > Standards.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Knowledge age standards : a brief introduction to their dimensions / Yesha Y. Sivan
  • 2. Consensus versus speed / Roy Rada
  • 3. The standardization process in IT : too slow or too fast? / Petri Mähönen
  • 4. Institutional dilemma in ICT standardization : coordinating the diffusion of technology / Tineke M. Egyedi
  • 5. Selected intellectual property issues in standardization / Martin B.H. Weiss, Michael B. Spring
  • 6. Standardization and intellectual property rights : conflicts between innovation and diffusion in new telecommunications systems / Eric J. Iversen
  • 7. Standards, strategy and evaluation / Robert Moreton
  • 8. The role of standards for interoperating information systems / Wilhelm Hasselbring
  • 9. Establishing standards for business components / Klaus Turowski
  • 10. A standards-based common operational environment / Jaroslav Blaha
  • 11. The standardization problem in networks : a general framework / Falk v. Westarp, Tim Weitzel, Peter Buxmann, Wolfgang König
  • 12. Standardizing retail payment instruments / Simon L. Lelieveldt
  • 13. Institutional constraints in the initial deployment of cellular telephone service on three continents / Joel West
  • 14. How to distribute a cake before cutting it into pieces : Alice in Wonderland or radio engineers' gang in the Nordic Countries? / Vladis Fomin, Kalle Lyytinen
  • 15. The European computer driving licence : a standard of basic competence for personal computer users / Michael Sherwood-Smith.

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