Standards and Public Policy /

Standards and Public Policy / edited by Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2007. - xi, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-388) and index.

Standard setting in markets : the browser war / Timothy F. Bresnahan, Pai-Ling Yin -- Competition through institutional form : the case of cluster tool standards / Richard N. Langolois -- The economic realities of open standards : black, white, and many shades of gray / Joel West -- Coordination costs and standard setting : lessons from 56K modems / Shane Greenstein, Marc Rysman -- Promoting e-business through vertical IS standards : lessons from the US home mortgage industry / Charles W. Steinfield, Rolf T. Wigand, M. Lynne Markus, Gabe Minton -- Manipulating interface standards as an anticompetitive strategy / Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Janet S. Netz -- Delay and de jure standardization : exploring the slowdown in Internet standards development / Timothy Simcoe -- Standardization : a failing paradigm / Carl Cargill, Sherrie Bolin -- Standards battles and public policy / Luis M.B. Cabral, Tobias Ketschmer -- Switching to digital television : business and public policy issues / Norbert Maier, Marco Ottaviani -- Should competition policy favor compatibility? / Joseph Farrell.

9781107404908 9780521864503 (hbk.)


Telecommunication policy.
Telecommunication--Standards.
Information technology--Standards.

384.043 / STA