This book integrates studies of supply and demand-side factors that affect the relevance and the quality of standards, and thus affect the impact they have. The book also addresses the dynamics between factors that condition demand for, and those that condition the supply of standards.
– Kai Jakobs, Aachen University, Germany
Jakobs compiles 17 chapters that analyze information communication technology and e-business standardization within the context of how standards are shaped by and interact with their environment, as well as issues in their production, with organizations.
– Book News Inc. (June 2009)