The impact of participation within formal standardization on firm performance

Wakke, Paul; Blind, Knut; Ramel, Florian

doi:10.1007/s11123-016-0465-3

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“…Firms cannot benefit as much from defining a technical specification favorable to themselves when their primary purpose is to improve the new product introduction rate. First, formal standards, which are available to all firms, are codified, and unified knowledge about the proper functioning of products are less beneficial for innovation opportunity recognition (Wakke et al, ). Second, the more influence that firms have in standard setting the higher the likelihood of consistency between industry standards and their current technical systems (Leiponen, ).…”

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Standardization Alliance Networks, Standard‐Setting Influence, and New Product Outcomes*

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Qualls

Zeng

2020

J of Product Innov Manag

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Standardization alliances evolve through collaborations among firms for developing and implementing industry technical standards. Cooperative standard setting can help allied firms to gain access to external knowledge and technologies, but it is unclear how the configuration of a standardization alliance can result in improving a firm’s performance in new product development. This study examines how standardization alliance network‐based resource advantages vary across a firm’s network position and the firm’s ability to influence industry standard setting and new product outcomes. Empirical analyses, based on archival data from 170 Chinese automobile manufacturers from 1999 to 2013, indicate that firms that span structural holes in standardization alliance networks gain an advantage when focusing on early new product introductions but suffer a disadvantage when aiming at more innovative products. In contrast, taking a central position in standardization alliance networks is negatively related to a firm’s speed in bringing new products to market but positively related to the firm’s new product introduction rate. Further, standard‐setting influence significantly mediates the effect of network position on a firm’s new product speed to market. Increasing centrality and structural holes can lead to the improvement of a firm’s standard‐setting influence, and this, in turn, positively affects speed to market.

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Standardization Alliance Networks, Standard‐Setting Influence, and New Product Outcomes*

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Zeng

2020

J of Product Innov Manag

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“…Turkey's Small and Medium-Sized Industry Development Organization (KOSGEB) supports the implementation of standards and management systems under its General Support programme. 9 The admissible costs also include certification tests, analyses and calibration. In North Macedonia, SMEs can benefit from a voucher scheme operated by the Innovation Fund to support quality infrastructure investments, including implementation of standards and certification.…”

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“…This combines a system of public and private organisations with the relevant legal and regulatory framework, and the practices needed to support and enhance the quality, safety and environmental soundness of goods, services and processes. In establishing this network, it will be extremely important to pay special attention to SMEs' needs and challenges (UNIDO, 2017 [9]).…”

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“…While 34 SMEs benefitted from the programme in 2017, the draft action plan to implement the new Strategy for Development of MSMS Enterprises in Montenegro 2018-2022 foresees the number to increase to 100 SMEs, with the overall programme value amounting to EUR 420 000 9. In 2017, 1 213 SMEs benefitted from the programme, with a cumulative total of 7 829 since 2010.…”

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Standards and technical regulations (Dimension 7) in the Western Balkans and Turkey

2016

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This chapter assesses the quality infrastructure systems and procedures required in the Western Balkans and Turkey to facilitate small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) access to the EU Single Market. It starts by outlining the assessment framework, then presents the analysis of Dimension 7's three sub-dimensions: 1) overall co-ordination and general measures, which assesses the strategic documents and institutional framework for quality infrastructure co-ordination; 2) harmonisation with the EU acquis, which analyses the capacities of quality infrastructure institutions as well as their alignment with international and European rules for technical regulations, standardisation, accreditation, metrology, conformity assessment and market surveillance; and 3) SME access to standards, which explores government initiatives to enhance and support access. Each sub-dimension section makes specific recommendations for increasing the capacity and efficiency of quality infrastructure systems in the Western Balkans and Turkey.

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“…However, they argue that firms' absorptive capacity and the competitive intensity of their industry tend to mediate early-mover advantages (Su et al 2015). Sim-ilarly, Wakke et al (2016) used the number of seats at the German Institute of Stan-dardisation as a proxy for participation in standardisation and found that participation in formal standardization is positively related to firm performance in the German manufac-turing sector but not in the service sector. These studies suggest that revisiting the roles of firm characteristics and capabilities can give more insight into firms' decision to be early or late adopters.…”

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Early and late adopters of ISO 14001-type standards: revisiting the role of firm characteristics and capabilities

2017

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Environmental management standards (EMS) are important voluntary management tools that aim at reducing the environmental impact of firms' activities. From ethical motivations through increasingly high pressure from regulatory authorities to expected financial returns, reasons to adopt an EMS are manifold. While they all certainly matter, it is still unclear from the literature which firm-specific organisational capabilities and structural characteristics significantly drive adoption. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) on two samples of French firms, we identify firm-specific factors associated with the early or late adoption of ISO 14001-type EMS and we test whether adoption increases labour productivity. We find that adopters are moderately large manufacturing firms that rely on ISO 9001 standards or Total Quality Management. In addition, according to the first sample, early adopters tend to be more technologically complex firms that are active in the European market. These differences are attenuated in the second sample, which may be biased towards more innovative firms. Both samples however concur with the conclusion that, whether early or late, adoption is associated with a higher labour productivity compared to non-adoption. This result still holds when we use fully interacted linear models instead of PSM, and seems to be consistent over time. Thus, implementing EMS might provide win-win opportunities to adopters, without giving any premium to ''early birds''.Standardisation and industrial regulations have played a major role in improving the quality, safety and reliability of the goods and services that we use today.Organizations implement increasingly technical industrial standards, which are often imposed by policy-setting institutions or through industry-level agreements. Others, though, are non-manda-tory, which raises the question of the determinants of their adoption. This is the case in particular of environmental management standards (EMS) such as ISO 14001.

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The impact of participation within formal standardization on firm performance

Cited by 35 publications

References 57 publications

Standardization Alliance Networks, Standard‐Setting Influence, and New Product Outcomes*

Standardization Alliance Networks, Standard‐Setting Influence, and New Product Outcomes*

Standards and technical regulations (Dimension 7) in the Western Balkans and Turkey

Early and late adopters of ISO 14001-type standards: revisiting the role of firm characteristics and capabilities

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