Switching costs and network effects bind customers to vendors if products are incompatible,
locking customers or even markets in to early choices. Lock-in hinders customers from …

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the governance of standard development
organizations (SDOs), with a particular emphasis on organizations developing standards for …

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1. This report provides an update of the 2000 report for DTI: The Economics of
Standardization. The present report does not displace the 2000 report for, in the author's …

This paper describes the Searle Center Database on Technology Standards and Standard
Setting Organizations (SSOs). This database combines comprehensive information on …

Abstract Standards Development Organizations (SDO) make critical decisions shaping the
direction of technological innovation. SDOs are usually considered to offer a neutral venue …

This paper investigates sector-specific driving forces for the standardization activities at
national standardization organizations. In the first part, theoretical hypotheses concerning …

Formal standards arise out of deliberations of standards-writing organizations, while de facto
standards result from unfettered market processes. Therefore, the former are of a higher …

Increasing participation of Chinese companies in many global Standard Development
Organizations (SDO) has fueled global competition for influence over the development of …

The analysis provides conditions under which standard setting organisations (SSOs) choose
efficient technology standards. I introduce a two-stage game with both voting and market …