Preface

Knowledge Age Standards: A Brief Introduction to Their Dimensions

Yesha Y. Sivan

Consensus Versus Speed

Roy Rada

The Standardization Process in IT---Too Slow or Too Fast?

Petri Mahonen

Institutional Dilemma in ICT Standardization: Coordinating the Diffusion of Technology

Tineke M. Egyedi

Selected Intellectual Property Issues in Standardization

Martin B.H. Weiss

Michael B. Spring

Standardization and Intellectual Property Rights: Conflicts Between Innovation and Diffusion in New Telecommunications Systems

Eric J. Iversen

Standards, Strategy and Evaluation

Robert Moreton

The Role of Standards for Interoperating Information Systems

Wilhelm Hasselbring

Establishing Standards for Business Components

Klaus Turowski

A Standards-Based Common Operational Environment

Jaroslav Blaha

The Standardization Problem in Networks---A General Framework

Falk v. Westarp

Tim Weitzel

Peter Buxmann

Wolfgang Konig

Standardizing Retail Payment Instruments

Simon L. Lelieveldt

Institutional Constraints in the Initial Deployment of Cellular Telephone Service on Three Continents

Joel West

How to Distribute a Cake Before Cutting It into Pieces: Alice in Wonderland or Radio Engineers' Gang in the Nordic Countries?

Vladis Fomin

Kalle Lyytinen

The European Computer Driving Licence: A Standard of Basic Competence for Personal Computer Users

Michael Sherwood-Smith

Author Biography

Index