Dynamics of Standards

Edited by Tineke M. Egyedi, Delft Institute for Research on Standardization, the Netherlands and Knut Blind, Professor of Innovation Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin and Head of the Business Unit Innovation and Regulation, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany

'The economics of standards has grown from being a rather arcane speciality into a major issue in industrial economics, strategy and technology policy. This collection of empirical papers is edited by two researchers that have made important contributions to that literature. Their particular focus is on what they call "standards dynamics": what happens to standards after they have been developed. This is welcome, because that particular issue has been largely ignored in the literature so far.'

• Contents:Foreword1. General IntroductionTineke M. Egyedi and Knut BlindPART I: THE PROBLEM OF CHANGING STANDARDS2. The Sustainability of Digital Data: Tension Between the Dynamics and Longevity of StandardsKees van der Meer3. An Implementation Perspective on Sources of Incompatibility and Standards’ DynamicsTineke M. EgyediPART II: CAUSES OF CHANGE4. + vs −: Dynamics and Effects of Competing Standards of Recordable DVD-MediaStephan Gauch5. Internet Addressing Standards: A Case Study in Standards Dynamics Driven by Bottom-Up Adoption Jos Vrancken, Marnix Kaart and Michel Soares6. Incompatible Successors: The Failure to Graft XML onto SGMLTineke M. Egyedi and Arjan LoeffenPART III: CHANGE IN AN IMPLEMENTATION CONTEXT7. The IEEE 802.11 WLAN Installation at RWTH Aachen University: A Case of Voluntary Vendor Lock-InKai Jakobs8. A Case Study of the Adoption and Implementation of STEPJosephine W. Thomas, Steve Probets, Ray Dawson and Tim KingPART IV: SCALE OF CHANGE9. How Stable are IT Standards?Tineke M. Egyedi and Petra Heijnen10. Factors Influencing the Lifetime of Telecommunication and Information Technology StandardsKnut BlindPART V: CONCLUSION11. ConclusionTineke M. EgyediBibliographyIndex