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Coordinating technology : studies in the international standardization of telecommunications / Susanne K. Schmidt, Raymund Werle.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Inside technologyPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1998Description: viii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262193930
  • 9780262193931
Other title:
  • Coordinating technology : Studies in the international standardisation of telecommunications
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 389.6 21
LOC classification:
  • TK5101 .S244 1998
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Actor-Centered Institutionalism: A Social-Shaping Perspective on Standardization and the Coordination of Technology -- 2. Standards and Technical Development -- 3. Institutionalized and Alternative Modes of International Standardization -- 4. Standard Setting -- 5. Standardization in a Transitory Environment -- 6. The Institutional Framework -- 7. Interactive Videotex -- 8. Facsimile (Telefax) -- 9. Message Handling (X.400) -- 10. Standardization as Coordination -- 11. Coordination of Standardization -- 12. Sources and Effects of Variation in a Stable Framework -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Review: "In Coordinating Technology, Susanne Schmidt and Raymund Werle present three case studies that highlight the actors, the process, the politics, and the influence exerted by international organizations in the construction of standards. The case studies concern the standards for facsimile terminals and transmission, videotex (a service that, with the exception of the French Minitel service, largely failed), and electronic mail. Schmidt and Werle follow each story from the realization by certain actors of the need for a standard, through complex negotiation processes involving many economic, political, and social interests, to the final agreement on a standard. In their analysis of these cases, they emphasize the many ways in which the processes are embedded in institutional structures and argue for the value of an institutionalist approach to technology studies."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Actor-Centered Institutionalism: A Social-Shaping Perspective on Standardization and the Coordination of Technology -- 2. Standards and Technical Development -- 3. Institutionalized and Alternative Modes of International Standardization -- 4. Standard Setting -- 5. Standardization in a Transitory Environment -- 6. The Institutional Framework -- 7. Interactive Videotex -- 8. Facsimile (Telefax) -- 9. Message Handling (X.400) -- 10. Standardization as Coordination -- 11. Coordination of Standardization -- 12. Sources and Effects of Variation in a Stable Framework -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"In Coordinating Technology, Susanne Schmidt and Raymund Werle present three case studies that highlight the actors, the process, the politics, and the influence exerted by international organizations in the construction of standards. The case studies concern the standards for facsimile terminals and transmission, videotex (a service that, with the exception of the French Minitel service, largely failed), and electronic mail. Schmidt and Werle follow each story from the realization by certain actors of the need for a standard, through complex negotiation processes involving many economic, political, and social interests, to the final agreement on a standard. In their analysis of these cases, they emphasize the many ways in which the processes are embedded in institutional structures and argue for the value of an institutionalist approach to technology studies."--Jacket.

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