Extant research suggests a positive and bidirectional relation between innovation and standardization. Focusing on the service industries, this paper relates the theory of innovation in services to the participation of service providers in standardization committees. For this purpose, we review...

Several studies highlight the economic benefits of standards, while the benefit of taking part in standardization remains a rather unexplored mystery to date. In theory, standard setters not only benefit from the possibility to monitor and shape the development of standards but also access a...

Despite the growing significance of service standardization, little is known about the microeconomic benefit of service standards. The paper presents results of a company survey on the benefit of service standards and the motives behind the standard’s implementation. Within the theoretical...

The paper aims at providing a sound understanding of the growing significance of service standardization at national standards bodies. Service standards arose mainly in the last years, so that former studies dealing with causes and effects of standardization focused on product standards or did...

The paper is motivated by the rising significance of the service industries and aims at testing whether this significance is adequately reflected within formal standardization at national standard bodies. The paper develops firm- and industry-specific hypotheses on the driving factors to...

Ziel des vorliegenden Arbeitsberichts ist es erstens, einen Überblick über bereits bestehende Normen und Spezifikationen im Umfeld der hybriden Wertschöpfung zu geben und zweitens, neue Standardisierungspotenziale für die weitere Entwicklung dieses Forschungsfeldes aufzuzeigen und diese für...

Ziel des vorliegenden Arbeitsberichts ist es erstens, einen Überblick über bereits bestehende Normen und Spezifikationen im Umfeld der hybriden Wertschöpfung zu geben und zweitens, neue Standardisierungspotenziale für die weitere Entwicklung dieses Forschungsfeldes aufzuzeigen und diese für...