Standards, Strategy, and Policy

Gerhard, Péter

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198288077.001.0001

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“…Standardisation is seen as a unidirectional process with objectives and outcomes that can be unequivocally defined (see e.g. David & Greenstein, 1990;Gabel, 1987;Grindley, 1995). But, as this study will show, ISAs do not constitute unequivocal, ready-made tools that without further ado can be used and acted upon.…”

Section: Translation Standardisation and The Stabilisation Of Networkmentioning

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Connecting worlds: The translation of international auditing standards into post-Soviet audit practice

Mennicken

2008

Accounting, Organizations and Society

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In a detailed field-study based investigation, it traces various attempts to articulate and link Soviet and post-Soviet worlds, old and new imagined audit worlds. The paper underscores the fragile and precarious nature of international standardisation projects. It shows how ideals of audit universalism and international comparability become enmeshed in, and challenged by, global divisions of audit labour, problems and practices of power and exclusion, and struggles for intra-professional distinction, which in turn undermine as well as promote the connecting of worlds through standards.

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Section: Translation Standardisation and The Stabilisation Of Networkmentioning

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Connecting worlds: The translation of international auditing standards into post-Soviet audit practice

Mennicken

2008

Accounting, Organizations and Society

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“…2 David and Greenstein (1990) is a good reference on the case literature prior to 1990. The case studies in Besen and Johnson (1986), Gabel (1987Gabel ( , 1991, Postrel (1990) and Grindley (1995) are also informative. Kahin and Abbate (1995) contains case studies that also focus on the institutional setting surrounding industry standards bodies.…”

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The Economics of Standards Wars

Stango¹

2004

Review of Network Economics

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“…For example, this research has studied the early VCR industry where VHS emerged as the winning standard (Grindley 1995), and the operating systems markets where multiple separate standards such as Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc. continue to coexist (Axelrod et al 1995).…”

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Alliances, Rivalry, and Firm Performance in Enterprise Systems Software Markets: A Social Network Approach

Chellappa

Saraf

2010

Information Systems Research

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E nterprise systems software (ESS) is a multibillion dollar industry that produces systems components to support a variety of business functions for a widerange of vertical industry segments. Even if it forms the core of an organization's information systems (IS) infrastructure, there is little prior IS research on the competitive dynamics in this industry. Whereas economic modeling has generally provided the methodological framework for studying standards-driven industries, our research employs social network methods to empirically examine ESS firm competition. Although component compatibility is critical to organizational end users, there is an absence of industry-wide ESS standards and compatibility is ensured through interfirm alliances. First, our research observes that this alliance network does not conform to the equilibrium structures predicted by economics of network evolution supporting the view that it is difficult to identify dominant standards and leaders in this industry. This state of flux combined with the multifirm multicomponent nature of the industry limits the direct applicability of extant analytical models. Instead, we propose that the relative structural position acquired by a firm in its alliance network is a reasonable proxy for its standards dominance and is an indicator of its performance. In lieu of structural measures developed mainly for interpersonal networks, we develop a measure of relative firm prominence specifically for the business software network where benefits of alliances may accrue through indirect connections even if attenuated. Panel data analyses of ESS firms that account for over 95% of the industry revenues, show that our measure provides a superior model fit to extant social network measures. Two interesting counterintuitive findings emerge from our research. First, unlike other software industries compatibility considerations can trump rivalry concerns. We employ quadratic assignment procedure to show that firms freely form alliances even with their rivals. Second, we find that smaller firms enjoy a greater value from acquiring a higher structural position as compared to larger firms.

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Standards, Strategy, and Policy

Cited by 177 publications

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Connecting worlds: The translation of international auditing standards into post-Soviet audit practice

Connecting worlds: The translation of international auditing standards into post-Soviet audit practice

The Economics of Standards Wars

Alliances, Rivalry, and Firm Performance in Enterprise Systems Software Markets: A Social Network Approach

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