Agencies around the world are in the process of developing taxonomies and standards for sustainable (or ESG) investment products. A key assumption in our model is that of non-consequentialist private investors (households) who derive a "warm glow" decisional utility when purchasing an investment...

This article empirically explores standard-setting organizations' policy orientations toward technology developers. We find that standards are associated with a larger number of firms declaring to own essential patent that are required for implementing the standards as the issuing SSOs' policies...

No matter how good a smart device may be, it remains useless outside the context of a digital ecosystem. Internet of Things (IoT) environments are possible as long as services and products can interconnect smoothly and exchange data in real time. Therefore, interoperability ranks high in global...

Despite its increasing popularity and wide application of the open innovation model, less attention has been paid to its dynamic traits. By viewing open innovation as a process of transition entailing progressively higher degrees of openness to external knowledge, this study investigates the...

The purpose of this study is to:analyse the recent evolution of patent backlogs identify respective trends and drivers assess the impact that patent backlogs may have on the patent system, incentives to innovate and the economy Further, given that patent examination and grant is performed at the...

Long a mainstay of environmental policy, emissions trading programs have faced increasing criticism in recent years. Critics have assailed existing trading programs for failing to generate the scale of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions necessary to mitigate the climate crisis and have...

Technology standards such as the Wi-Fi or 5G mobile communication standard rely on standard-essential patents (SEPs). Increasing licensing revenues and several disputes between owners and users of SEPs raise the question about the patenting behavior of firms developing standardized technologies....

Organizations have not fully realized the benefits of interorganizational relationships (IORs) due to the lack of cross-enterprise process integration capabilities. Recently, interorganizational business process standards (IBPS) enabled by information technology (IT) have been suggested as a...

Generally, the benefit corporation statutes require a corporation’s charter to state that it is obligated to pursue a general public benefit that will create a positive impact on society and the environment as a whole, to be assessed against a third-party standard. The benefit corporation is...

The aim of this opinion is to provide an analysis of the current status and nature of harmonised standards within the EU legal system in light of the legislative and judicial developments in the last years. Firstly, it examines the nature of the process of European standardisation and of...