How nations choose product standards and standards change nations
By: Samuel Krislov.
Series: Pitt series in policy and institutional studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Standardization; Commercial products -- Standards
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: A standard primer: an introduction to standards: what they do and do not do. The diverse strands of standardization. The many faces of standards; title: American standards: a system that just grew: Standards in American history. The American "system" of standards; title: Other systems, other functions: Standards in the European Community: building blocks toward integration? Standards and the Japanese miracle: the politics and economics of quality. Standards as boundaries: the abortive efforts of Soviet Europe; title: Becoming and evolving: the future of standards: The evolution of standards and the processes of formalization. World of increasing sameness?