Posts Tagged ‘SSOs’

The economic crisis means new challenges for voluntary standardization

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Globalization and standardization

The ongoing financial and economic crisis is potentially going to have a substantial effect on standardization. This poses a number of new and interesting challenges and questions for standard setting organizations and firms involved in informal standardization.
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Value vs delay in SSOs

Monday, March 30th, 2009

SSOs help firms to reach a high-value consensus. Strategic considerations and political competition, however, slows down the process compared to product market competition.
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