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Peer reviewedGreenstein, Shane M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Outlines the economic factors that influence the development of standards, noting that standards may develop through market mechanisms, organizations that combine market participants, and government guidance. Each of these mechanisms may produce desirable outcomes or distort them, depending on market structure, chance, historical events, and costs…
Descriptors: Consortia, Cooperation, Economic Factors, Free Enterprise System
