analysis and critique. Findings The authors highlight how a disrupted standard-setting field will be a distraction from efforts … likely to be an outcome of struggles between occupants in the sustainability standard-setting field. Accordingly, the shape … theoretically highlight how a new standard setter may disrupt the sustainability standard-setting field and act as a distraction …

Whereas technical standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) are omnipresent and essential to mass production … propensities to belong to SSOs. We concentrate our study on standard setting organizations features and their intellectual property …