Date: 1997
Type: Article
How fragmentation can improve coordination : setting standards in international telecommunication
Organization studies, 1997, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 603-622
GENSCHEL, Philipp, How fragmentation can improve coordination : setting standards in international telecommunication, Organization studies, 1997, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 603-622
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There is a stark contrast between the way industrial economics asks us to think about standard setting in telecommunications and the way standard-setting is actually organized. On the one hand, leading scholars maintain that standard setting is a natural monopoly. On the other hand, the number of standards organizations for telecommunications is quite large and there is no indication that this number will decrease. The paper analyzes how to resolve this discrep ancy. It argues that there are reasons to believe that the natural monopoly hypothesis is wrong. Under a certain set of conditions which are prevalent in international telecommunications, the distribution of standard setting to a multitude of competing standards organizations is both stable and efficient.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/65066
Full-text via DOI: 10.1177/017084069701800403
ISSN: 0170-8406; 1741-3044
Publisher: SAGE Publications
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