We present a theory for predicting how business firms form alliances to develop and sponsor technical standards. Our basic assumptions are that the utility of a firm for joining a particular standard-setting alliance increases with the size of the alliance and decreases with the presence of...

...Die Zahl der Dienstleistungsanbieter wächst täglich: Egal, ob im Telekommunikationsbereich oder im Gesundheitswe-sen, die Auswahl des am besten geeigneten Anbieters fällt den Kunden nicht immer leicht. Während in der industriel-len Praxis Normen und Standards dem Kunden bei der...

The CII’s position paper no.1 (‘A professional body forretail financial services?’), published in October, set outan overview of the possible professional response to theFSA’s Retail Distribution Review and to the challenge ofestablishing, against the background of more...

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. <i>The Box</i> tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade...

Cet article propose une interprétation de la réforme du dispositif français de normalisation initiée par le décret n° 2007-629 du 27 avril 2007 relatif au Conseil National de la Comptabilité (CNC). Cette réforme, si elle menée à son terme, doit déboucher sur une Autorité (française)...