Dear All,
Only around six weeks to go.
You might want to start writing right away ........
I look forward to receiving many excellent papers.
Cheers,
Kai.
Call for Chapters
'Strategic Management of Information Technology Standards'
edited by:
Richard Hawkins, Ken Krechmer, Kai Jakobs, Mostafa Hashem Sherif
to be published by IGP.
The book will use a non-prescriptive approach - i.e., it will not be a
'how to' book, but a 'why' book, to give professionals, academics, and
students insights into how to understand the impact of standards on IT
products and services, processes, and policies. It will, therefore, adopt
a very multi-disciplinary approach. Standardisation and, particularly,
current trends in standards research will be discussed from a multitude
of angles, including, but not limited to, computer science, information
science, telecommunications, business, economics, sociology, management,
technology studies, and law.
The editors plan to create a homogeneous book and not a collection of
disparate papers in various fields.
The book will be subdivided into the four main parts 'Background',
'Standardisation Environment', 'Management of Standards', and 'Evaluation
of Standards' (see below for a more detailed list of topics).
Manuscripts are solicited that address one or - better yet - several of
the topics listed below. Outlines of potential contributions may be
submitted for initial screening and feedback.
Please send enquiries, outlines, and contributions (preferrably in PDF or
RTF) to:
Kai Jakobs <[log in to unmask]>
Important Dates
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Contributions due: June 30, 2004
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2004
Final versions due: November 15, 2004
List of Topics
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BACKGROUND
* Definition and scope of IT standards
* Drivers for IT standardisation
* Limitations of IT standards
* Conformity assessment
* Standardisation and innovation
* Evolution of standards
* Characteristics and typology of IT standards
STANDARDISATION ENVIRONMENT
* Standards vs. other means to achieve compatibility
* Standards and technology life cycles
* Legal aspects of standardisation
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Regulation
- Mandatory vs. Voluntary Standards
* Economic aspects of standards
* Standards policies
MANAGEMENT OF STANDARDS
* Creation
- Standardisation processes
- The different stakeholders
- Proactive, reactive, joint standardisation
- The 'consortia' phenomenon
- The social shaping of standards
- Internet Standards
* Implementation
- Standards and product planning
- Standards and business strategies
- Rethinking the organisation
- Implementation issues and their effect on the industry structure
- The impact of standards on development
- Standards and international competition
* Use
- Competitive advantages through standards?
- IT standards in individual sectors
- Telecommunications
- Services
- Intelligent transport systems
- Manufacturing
- Health care
- Standards management and technology management
- Risk in standards management
- Case Studies
EVALUATION OF STANDARDS
* Standard audits
* Certification
* Standards and technology assessment
* Standardisation and technology transfer
* Bugs in the standards
* Anatomy of a successful standard
* Anatomy of a failed standard.
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Kai Jakobs
Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik IV (Communication and Distributed Systems)
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
Fax: +49-241-80-22220
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http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/kai/kai_home.html
The International Journal on IT Standards and Standardization Research (JITSR)
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