Hoppa till sidans huvudinnehåll

599 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)


The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy trace the standard-setting system's evolution through time, revealing a process with an astonishingly pervasive, if rarely noticed, impact on all of our lives. This type of standard setting was established in the 1880s, when engineers aimed to prove their status as professionals by creating useful standards that would be widely adopted by manufacturers while satisfying corporate customers. Yates and Murphy explain how these engineers' processes provided a timely way to set desirable standards that would have taken much longer to emerge from the market and that governments were rarely willing to set. By the 1920s, the standardizers began to think of themselves as critical to global prosperity and world peace. After World War II, standardizers transcended Cold War divisions to create standards that made the global economy possible. Finally, Yates and Murphy reveal how, since 1990, a new generation of standardizers has focused on supporting the internet and web while applying the same standard-setting process to regulate the potential social and environmental harms of the increasingly global economy.Drawing on archival materials from three continents, Yates and Murphy describe the positive ideals that sparked the standardization movement, the ways its leaders tried to realize those ideals, and the challenges the movement faces today. Engineering Rules is a riveting global history of the people, processes, and organizations that created and maintain this nearly invisible infrastructure of today's economy, which is just as important as the state or the global market.

Produktinformation

Hoppa över listan

Mer från samma författare

Structuring the Information Age

JoAnne Yates, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Yates, JoAnne (Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Joanne Yates

Inbunden

859 kr

Hoppa över listan

Mer från samma serie

Back on Track

Mark Aldrich, Mark (Smith College) Aldrich

Inbunden

839 kr

Dead Tree Media

Michael Stamm, Michael (Michigan State University) Stamm

Inbunden

749 kr

Movable Markets

Helen Tangires, Helen (National Gallery of Art) Tangires

Inbunden

889 kr

Train and the Telegraph

Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes, Benjamin Sidney Michael (Managing Editor) Schwantes

Inbunden

819 kr

Sovereign Skies

Sean Seyer, The University of Kansas) Seyer, Sean (Academic Program Associate/Lecturer, Sean, Seyer

Inbunden

939 kr

Havoc and Reform

James P. Kraft, James P. (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Kraft, James P Kraft

Inbunden

799 kr

Land and Liberty

Christopher William England, Christopher William, England

Inbunden

799 kr

Courteous Capitalism

Daniel Robert, Berkeley) Robert, Daniel (University of California

Inbunden

919 kr

Hoppa över listan

Du kanske också är intresserad av

Dead Tree Media

Michael Stamm, Michael (Michigan State University) Stamm

Inbunden

749 kr

Sovereign Skies

Sean Seyer, The University of Kansas) Seyer, Sean (Academic Program Associate/Lecturer, Sean, Seyer

Inbunden

939 kr

Train and the Telegraph

Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes, Benjamin Sidney Michael (Managing Editor) Schwantes

Inbunden

819 kr

Courteous Capitalism

Daniel Robert, Berkeley) Robert, Daniel (University of California

Inbunden

919 kr

Back on Track

Mark Aldrich, Mark (Smith College) Aldrich

Inbunden

839 kr

Movable Markets

Helen Tangires, Helen (National Gallery of Art) Tangires

Inbunden

889 kr

Havoc and Reform

James P. Kraft, James P. (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Kraft, James P Kraft

Inbunden

799 kr

Land and Liberty

Christopher William England, Christopher William, England

Inbunden

799 kr