Print Email Facebook Twitter Multi-mode standardisation Title Multi-mode standardisation: A critical review and a research agenda Author Wiegmann, Paul Moritz (Rotterdam School of Management) de Vries, H.J. (TU Delft Economics of Technology and Innovation; Rotterdam School of Management) Blind, Knut (Technical University of Berlin; Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems) Date 2017 Abstract Standardisation is key to shaping new technologies and supporting major ongoing trends, such as the increased importance of platforms, developing 'smart' technologies and innovating large-scale complex systems. Standardisation plays a key role in shaping the rules that govern these developments and their effects on society. Due to the large variety of actors involved in these trends, the associated standardisation processes are likely to involve all three modes of standardisation identified in the literature: committee-based, market-based and government-based. This multi-mode standardisation challenges the theoretical views on standardisation which predominantly focus on one of the modes. In this paper, we review the existing literatures on individual modes and on multi-mode standardisation. By recombining existing evidence, we generate new insights into multi-mode standardisation processes. These first insights relate to the contributions that each mode can make to such processes' outcomes and suggest that their impact depends on factors, such as their initiation's timing and the institutional context in which the standardisation process occurs. Moreover, we consider the conditions under which actors can launch each mode. Based on our observations, we formulate an agenda for future research to obtain a better understanding of multi-mode standardisation. We offer recommendations for industry actors, NGOs, researchers and policy makers involved in shaping technological and societal change. Subject Committee-based standardizationGovernment-based standardizationMulti-mode standardizationRegulationStandard battlesStandardization To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9affba02-f277-4b63-8026-4820ac31740e DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.06.002 ISSN 0048-7333 Source Research Policy Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 Paul Moritz Wiegmann, H.J. de Vries, Knut Blind Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0048733317301002_main.pdf 705.58 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:9affba02-f277-4b63-8026-4820ac31740e/datastream/OBJ/view