Global Environmental Standards for Industry

Government/industry Interactions in the Global Standards System*

We review the evolution of the global standards system and its relationship to industry. We then discuss some of the approaches that governments have taken in order to modify the system for the benefit of domestic and worldwide economic development. We use as an example an effort of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to encourage voluntary consensus standards for interopera...

The Emergence of a Standards Market: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry

The growing number of voluntary standards for governing transnational arenas is presenting standards organizations with a problem. While claiming that they are pursuing shared, overarching objectives, at the same time, they are promoting their own respective standards that are increasingly similar. By developing the notion of ‘standards markets,’ this paper examines this tension and studies how...

Do Corporate Global Environmental Standards Create or Destroy Market Value

Glen Dowell • Stuart Hart • Bernard Yeung 263 College of Business, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 New York University, Stern School of Business, 44 W 4th Street, Room 7/65, New York, New York 10012, and William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor,...

Industry and Standards

Modern-era mobile phones and tablets have evolved into powerful imageand video-processing devices, equipped with high-resolution cameras, color displays, and hardware-accelerated graphics. They are also equipped with location sensors (GPS receiver, compass, and gyroscope), and connected to broadband wireless networks, allowing fast information transmission and enabling a class of applications t...

Microfluidic diagnostics: time for industry standards.