Internet Resources on IT Standards

Joel’s research interests include product compatibility standards in information technology and electronics industries. Below are his favorite resources.

• See also Joel West’s Research on IT standards

Conferences

• HICSS Minitrack on Standards and Standardization: 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007
• SIIT (Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology): 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
• Workshops
  • European Academy for Standardisation annual workshop
  • “Standards and Public Policy,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, May 2004
  • “Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems,” ICIS 2003, December 2003

Journals

• International Journal of IT Standards & Standardisation Research (JITSR): editor’s webpages, publisher’s webpages, past table of contents
• Review of Network Economics
• Special issues (on standards, network effects, etc.) of these journals:
  • Electronic Markets: November 2005 (Vol. 15, No. 4)
  • Information Economics and Policy: December 1994 (Vol. 6, Nos. 3-4)
  • International Journal of Industrial Organization: October 1996 (Vol. 16, No. 6)
  • Journal of Economic Perspectives: Spring 1994 (Vol. 8, No. 2)
  • MIS Quarterly: August 2006 (Vol. 30, No. 2)

Newsletters

• Andy Updegrove’s Consortium Standards Bulletin (free)

Other Websites

• SIIT discussion list for research on IT standards
• Link pages related to standards research
  • Network economics perspective: Nicholas Economides, Arun Sundarajan, Hal Varian, Yi-Nung Yang
  • Sociotechnical perspective: Tineke Egyedi, Kai Jakobs
  • Telecommunications standardization: Communications Standards Review
• ConsortiumInfo.org, including the Standards News Portal and Standards Blog
• American National Standards Institute “Overview of the U.S. Standardization System”

Last Updated June 28, 2006

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