Standards and Public Policy

Klappentext In this volume, leading researchers focus on applied questions at the forefront of standards policy. Zusammenfassung Despite general agreement that technological standards are important! there is much less agreement on the central policy questions! such as whether markets choose the best standards! and what constitutes appropriate public policy toward standards. In this volume! leading researchers in the field focus on these key questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango; 1. Standard setting in markets: the Browser war Timothy F. Bresnahan and Pai-Ling Yin; 2. Competition through institutional form: the case of cluster tool standards Richard Langlois; 3. The economic realities of open standards: black, white, and many shades of gray Joel West; 4. Coordination costs and standard setting: lessons from 56k modems Shane Greenstein and Marc Rysman; 5. Promoting e-business through vertical IS standards: lessons from the US home mortgage industry Charles Steinfield, Rolf Wigand, M. Lynne Markus and Gabe Minton; 6. Intellectual property and standardization committee participation in the US modem industry Neil Gandal, Nataly Gantman and David Genesove; 7. Manipulating interface standards as an anticompetitive strategy Jeff MacKie-Mason and Janet Netz; 8. Delay and de jure standardization: exploring the slowdown in internet standards development Timothy Simcoe; 9. Standardization: a failing paradigm Carl Cargill and Sherrie Bolin; 10. Standards battles and public policy Luis Cabral and Tobias Kretschmer; 11. Switching to digital television: business and public policy issues Norbert Maier and Marco Ottaviani; 12. Should competition policy favor compatibility? Joseph Farrell; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Shane Greenstein, Shane (Kellogg School of Management Greenstein, Shane Stango Greenstein, GREENSTEIN SHANE STANGO VICTOR
• Mitarbeit: Shane Greenstein (Herausgeber), Greenstein Shane (Herausgeber), Victor Stango (Herausgeber), Stango Victor (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107404908
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40490-8
• Seiten: 414
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Sonstiges; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Industry & industrial studies, Microeconomics, Industry and industrial studies