Standards, Strategy, and Policy: Cases and Stories [Hardcover]

Peter Grindley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 14, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0198288077 | ISBN-13: 978-0198288077

This book aims to help the business strategist and policy-maker understand how compatibility standards may be used to ensure business success. It provides a framework for standards strategy and policy, together with a series of case-studies which interpret the economics of standards in practical settings. The book considers the problems of establishing a new standard in the market and winning standards contests. It also studies questions of how to maintaining the profitability of a standard and how to compete within an established standard. It combines the strategic analysis with an evaluation of standards policy, and suggests ways in which markets and policy intervention may effectively be used together. Cases include contests for standards for video cassette recorders, digital audio tape, personal computers, open computer systems, high-definition television, and Telepoint cordless phones. Standards have long been seen as a technical problem, yet in a large number of industries they are central to business strategy and technical aspects are only part of the effort needed for product success. They imply very different strategies and policies than for conventional products.

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`Interesting approach ... Provides a framework for evaluating a number of cases ... A fascinating story of innovation.' Long Range Planning

About the Author

Peter Grindley is at Law and Economics Consulting Group, Berkeley, California.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 14, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198288077
• ISBN-13: 978-0198288077
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,141,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book combined with standard_strategy theories and cases, December 5, 1996

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This review is from: Standards, Strategy, and Policy: Cases and Stories (Hardcover)

There're two parts in this book. One is about strategies of standard, the other is real cases. The strategies of standard can be roughly divided into "de facto" and "de jure" The cases shows every pattern of standard_setting_way... Mmmm...I think the cases in this book are most attractive !! I love it!