ContentsIntroduction Albert N. LinkPART I AN OVERVIEW OF STANDARDS1. George V. Thompson (1954), `Intercompany, Technical Standardization in the Early American Automobile Industry', Journal of Economic History, 14 (1), Winter, 1-20 2. Charles P. Kindleberger (1983), `Standards as Public, Collective and Private Goods', Kyklos, 36 (3), 377-96 3. Joseph Farrell and Garth Saloner (1985), `Standardization, Compatibility and Innovation, ' Rand Journal of Economics, 16 (1), Spring, 70-83 4. Paul A. David and Shane Greenstein (1990), `The Economics of Compatibility Standards: An Introduction to Recent Research', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1 (1), 3-41 5. Stanley M. Besen and Joseph Farrell (1994), `Choosing How to Compete: Strategies and Tactics in Standardization', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8 (2), Spring, 117-31 6. Mark A. Lemley (2002), `Intellectual Property Rights and Standard-Setting Organizations, ' California Law Review, 90 (6), December, 1889-980 7. Victor Stango (2004), `The Economics of Standards Wars', Review of Network Economics, 3 (1), March, 1-19 PART II COMPETITION AND STANDARDS8. Albert N. Link (1983), `Market Structure and Voluntary Product Standards', Applied Economics, 15 (3), 393-4019. Donald J. Lecraw (1984), `Some Economic Effects of Standards', Applied Economics, 16 (4), 507-22 10. Shane Greenstein (1990), `Creating Economic Advantage By Setting Compatibility Standards: Can ``Physical Tie-Ins" Extend Monopoly Power?' Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1 (1-2), 63-83 11. Harald Gruber (2000), `The Evolution of Market Structure in Semiconductors: The Role of Product Standards', Research Policy, 29 (6), 725-40 12. Joseph Farrell and Timothy Simcoe (2012), `Choosing the Rules for Consensus Standardization', Rand Journal of Economics, 43 (2), Summer, 235-52 PART III STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION 13. Albert N. Link and Gregory Tassey (1988), `Standards and the Diffusion of Advanced Technologies', Evaluation and Program Planning, 11 (1), 97-102 14. Paul A. David and W. Edward Steinmueller (1990), `The ISDN Bandwagon Is Coming, but Who Will Be There to Climb Aboard?: Quandaries in The Economics of Data Communication Networks', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1 (1-2), 43-62 15. Jeffrey L. Funk and David T. Methe (2001), `Market- and Committee-Based Mechanisms in the Creation and Diffusion of Global Industry Standards: The Case of Mobile Communication', Research Policy, 30 (4), 589-61016. Jeffrey L. Funk (2003), `Standards, Dominant Designs and Preferential Acquisition of Complementary Assets through Slight Information Advantages', Research Policy, 32 (8), 1325-4117. Anat Hovav, Martin Hemmert and Yoo Jung Kim (2011), `Determinants of Internet Standards Adoption: The Case of South Korea', Research Policy, 40 (2), 253-62 PART IV STANDARDS AND COMPUTER- RELATED TECHNOLOGIES 18. Raymond S. Hartman and David J. Teece (1990), `Product Emulation Strategies in the Presence of Reputation Effects and Network Externalities: Some Evidence from the Minicomputer Industry', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1 (1-2), 157-82 19. Garth Saloner (1990), `Economic Issues in Computer Interface Standardization', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1 (1-2), 135-56 20. Tom Cottrell (1994) `Fragmented Standards and the Development of Japan's Microcomputer Software Industry', Research Policy, 23 (2), 143-74 21. Timothy F. Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein (1999), `Technological Competition and the Structure of the Computer Industry', Journal of Industrial Economics, 47 (1), March, 1-40 PART V CASE STUDIES ON STANDARDS22. Wallace E. Oates, Paul R. Portney and Albert M. McGartland (1989), `The Net Benefits of Incentive-Based Regulation: A Case Study of Environmental Standard Setting', American Economic Review, 79 (5), December, 1233-4223. Timothy F. Bresnahan and Amit Chopra (1990), `The Development of the Local Area Network Market as Determined by User Needs', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1 (1-2), 97-110 24. Steven C. Salop (1990), `Deregulating Self-Regulated Shared ATM Networks', Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1 (1-2), 85-96 25. Bruce S. Tether, Christiane Hipp and Ian Miles (2001), `Standardisation and Particularisation in Services: Evidence from Germany', Research Policy, 30 (7), August, 1115-38 26. Thomas A. Hemphill (2009), `Technology Standards-Setting in the US Wireless Telecommunications Industry: A Study of Three Generations of Digital Standards Development', Telematics and Informatics, 26 (1), February, 103-24 27. Albert N. Link and John T. Scott (2012), `On the Social Value of Quality: An Economic Evaluation of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program', Science and Public Policy, 39 (5), 680-89 28. Timothy Simcoe (2012), `Standard Setting Committees: Consensus Governance for Shared Technology Platforms', American Economic Review, 102 (1), February, 305-36 PART VI PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT 29. Gregory Tassey (1982), `The Role of Government in Supporting Measurement Standards for High-Technology Industries', Research Policy, 11 (5), 311-20 30. Antonio J. Bailetti and John R. Callahan (1995), `Managing Consistency between Product Development and Public Standards Evolution', Research Policy, 24 (6), 913-31 31. Bert Coursey and Albert N. Link (1998), `Evaluating Technology-Based Public Institutions: The Case of Radiopharmaceutical Standards Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology', Evaluation Review, 7 (3), December, 147-57 32. Daniele Benezech, Gilles Lambert, Blandine Lanoux, Christophe Lerch and Jocelyne Loos-Baroin (2001), `Completion of Knowledge Codification: An Illustration through the ISO 9000 Standards Implementation Process', Research Policy, 30 (9), 1395-407 33. Gregory Tassey (2005), `Underinvestment in Public Good Technologies', Journal of Technology Transfer, 30 (1-2) 89-113 34. Michael P. Gallaher and Brent R. Rowe (2006), `The Costs and Benefits of Transferring Technology Infrastructures Underlying Complex Standards: The Case of IPv6', Journal of Technology Transfer, 31 (5), 519-44Index