New Applications in IT Standards: Developments and Progress

New Applications in IT Standards: Developments and Progress

Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 368

ISBN13: 9781605669465|ISBN10: 1605669466|EISBN13: 9781605669472|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616922368

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-946-5

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In recent years, IT standardization has become increasingly complex as a result of globalization, widespread Internet use, and the economic importance of standards.

New Applications in IT Standards: Developments and Progress unites contributions on all facets of standards research, providing essential research on developing, teaching, and implementing standards in global organizations and institutions. Researchers can benefit from specific cases, frameworks, and new theories in IT standards studies.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Foundations and Future Prospects of Standards Studies: Multidisciplinary Approach (pages 1-18)

Shiro Kurihara

The standards world has radically changed over the past two decades, especially in international standardization, with an increased impact on business and society, although the essential characteristic of standardization in general;...

Chapter 2

Developing a Basis for Global Reciprocity: Negotiating Between the Many Standards for Project Management (pages 19-34)

Lynn Crawford, Julien Pollack

Professional standards are a significant issue for professions such as IT and project management, where certification and licensure are either necessary to practice or to demonstrate individual competence and capability. In many...

Chapter 3

US and EU Regulatory Competition and Authentication Standards in Electronic Commerce (pages 35-53)

Jane K. Winn

This chapter examines the role of law reform in promoting the development of technical standards for the authentication of parties engaged in Internet commerce. Law reforms intended to improve the security of Internet commerce can...

Chapter 4

A Step Towards the Adoption of Standards Within the UK Ministry of Defence (pages 54-69)

Josephine W. Thomas, Steve Probets, Ray Dawson, Tim King

This article seeks to identify the factors that have impacted the adoption of ISO 10303, the Standard for the Exchange of Product Data (STEP), within the UK Ministry of Defence. The analysis presented in this article is based on...

Chapter 5

On Aligning the Properties of Standards with the Needs of Their Direct Users – Network Operators (pages 70-94)

Krzysztof M. Brzeziński

Network Operators (NOs) are the important stakeholders in standardization. For the ongoing development of their infrastructure and service portfolio, they directly use “external” telecommunications standards developed by the SDOs...

Chapter 6

The Performance of Standard Setting Organizations: Using Patent Data for Evaluation (pages 95-108)

Marc Rysman, Tim Simcoe

This article uses citations to patents disclosed in the standard setting process to measure the technological significance of voluntary standard setting organizations (SSOs). We find that SSO patents are outliers in several...

Chapter 7

Patents and Standards in the ICT Sector: Are Submarine Patents a Substantive Problem or a Red Herring? (pages 109-146)

Aura Soininen

Multiple cases have been reported in which patents have posed dilemmas in the context of cooperative standard setting. Problems have come to the fore with regard to GSM, WCDMA, and CDMA standards, for example. Furthermore, JPEG and...

Chapter 8

A Framework to Build Process Theories of Anticipatory Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standardizing (pages 147-186)

Kalle Lyytinen, Thomas Keil, Vladislav Fomin

Standards have become critical to information and communication technologies (ICTs) as they become complex and pervasive. We propose a process theory framework to explain anticipatory standardizing outcomes post hoc when the...

Chapter 9

Integrating Real Option and Dynamic Capability Theories of Firm Boundaries: The Logic of Early Acquisition in the ICT Industry (pages 187-203)

Alfred G. Warner, James F. Fairbank

Firms often acquire other firms to source technology but it is unclear why they might assume such risk by buying before a product standard is established in their industry. We draw upon real options and dynamic capability theories of...

Chapter 10

Standardization Education: Developments and Progress (pages 204-215)

Henk J. de Vries, Tineke M. Egyedi

The purpose of this chapter is to provide insight in recent developments in standardization education. The increasing number of initiatives and activities of the last couple of years indicates that there is a momentum for education...

Chapter 11

How Engineers Learn about Standards (pages 216-224)

Ken Krechmer

This chapter focuses on the training needed by technical experts and explores the type of academic coursework as well as training that technical experts need in the field of standards and standardization.

Chapter 12

IT Service Management Standards: Education Challenges (pages 225-241)

Aileen Cater-Steel, Mark Toleman

Service management standards such as the IT infrastructure library (ITIL), and now ISO/IEC 20000, provide guidance and tools for effective management and control of IT service delivery. These standards are of increasing importance to...

Chapter 13

Factors Influencing the Lifetime of Telecommunication and Information Technology Standards (pages 242-259)

Knut Blind

Besides these very conceptual or theoretical approaches to deal with standards dynamics, several case study analyses exist, which focus on the standard maintenance and succession (Egyedi, Loeffen 2002) in order to answer the question...

Chapter 14

IPR Policy of the DVB Project: Negative Disclosure, FR&ND Arbitration Unless Pool Rules OK Part 1 (pages 260-383)

Carter Eltzroth

The DVB Project is a European-based standards forum that for close to 15 years has been developing specifications for digital video broadcasting, many now implemented worldwide. Its IPR policy has several novel elements. These...

Chapter 15

Structural Effects of Platform Certification on a Complementary Product Market: The Case of Mobile Applications (pages 284-300)

Ankur Tarnacha, Carleen Maitland

This article examines the structural effects of platform certification on the supply of complementary products. Drawing on the exploratory case of mobile application markets, the article highlights the broader market effects of...

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