Standards are produced by a vast array of mostly private organizations such as international non government organizations, interest groups and expert organizations.
Standards provide a high degree of global order in the modern world.
Standardization is a form for regulation with a significance of the same order as hierarchies and markets. In the project it is studied how and why standards are produced, how they compete with each other and how they are adopted. Brunsson, Nils and Olsen, Johan P. Organizing Organizations.