Standards are receiving increasing attention, especially at the transnational level where
standardization aims at coherence and social ordering beyond the nation-state. However …

This study fills a gap in standardization literature. It is the first academic analysis of national
standardization organizations. These organizations exist in every country and may be …

This paper suggests that when the phenomenon of standards and standardization is
examined from the perspective of organization studies, three aspects stand out: the …

This chapter shows that standardisation as a process of explicitly formulating general rules
defining and regulating economic activity can be interpreted as a process of global …

This paper explores the construction of what the authors term a 'tripartite standards
regime'(TSR) by looking at the pragmatic emergence of standards development …

" The paper investigates the emergence and development, since the Second World War, of a
transnational field of governance for accounting and financial reporting. Recent decades …

This paper conceptualizes standardization as institutional work to study the emergence of a
standard and the deployment of its regulatory power. We rely on unique access to …

The increasing use of transnational standard-setting bodies to address quality uncertainties
and coordination issues across the global economy raises questions about how these …

'How and why do transnational regulatory bodies emerge? How do they acquire the
authority and confidence to be actors in their own right? These questions preoccupy …

IN THE PREGLOBALIZATION ERA, standards-setting used to be an internal matter for firms
or the domain of designated technical organizations, many of them private. Government …