Standards in transitions: Catalyzing infrastructure change

Egyedi, Tineke M.; Spirco, Jaroslav

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2011.06.004

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“…Both users and other developers may modify or extend them while competing technologies and enterprises arise; consider the many similar, but incompatible devices and standards developed during the early days of railroads, electric power, or digital computers. Consequently, when a need arises to link heterogeneous systems into networks , devices, and/or social apparatuses known as gateways —for example, AC/DC power converters, software/hardware combinations such as Ethernet, and legal arrangements such as international trade law (Egyedi, 1996; Egyedi and Spirco, 2011)—must be created. The network phase signals not only the involvement of many more actors but also growing social commitments manifested in, for example, explicit standards, user habituation, and organizational routines.…”

Section: Digital Environments In Infrastructure and Platform Studiesmentioning

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Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook

Plantin

Lagoze

Edwards³

et al. 2016

New Media & Society

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Two theoretical approaches have recently emerged to characterize new digital objects of study in the media landscape: infrastructure studies and platform studies. Despite their separate origins and different features, we demonstrate in this article how the cross-articulation of these two perspectives improves our understanding of current digital media. We use case studies of the Open Web, Facebook, and Google to demonstrate that infrastructure studies provides a valuable approach to the evolution of shared, widely accessible systems and services of the type often provided or regulated by governments in the public interest. On the other hand, platform studies captures how communication and expression are both enabled and constrained by new digital systems and new media. In these environments, platform-based services acquire characteristics of infrastructure, while both new and existing infrastructures are built or reorganized on the logic of platforms. We conclude by underlining the potential of this combined framework for future case studies.

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Section: Digital Environments In Infrastructure and Platform Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook

Plantin

Lagoze

Edwards³

et al. 2016

New Media & Society

848

544

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“…However, any attempt to systemize diverse and locally-embedded processes is likely to encounter a widespread perception, especially in academia, that standards and innovation contradict and exclude each other. This reservation has been challenged by Egyedi and Spirico, who emphasize the role that standards can play as a starting point for change against the backdrop of materially and socio-institutionally entrenched or locked-in infrastructures [33], which precipitate any energy transition agenda. The traditional opposition to standardization has been systematically refuted by a comprehensive analysis of the impact of standardization and standards on innovation [34].…”

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A Process Approach to Mainstreaming Civic Energy

McGovern

Klenke

2018

Energies

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Civic energy has developed to become a key driver of a transition of the energy system to a locally-sourced, renewables-based economy whereby individual civic energy initiatives exhibit highly diverse forms and agency characteristics. Together they challenge the incumbent corporate, fossil-based energy system and its underlying techno-economic paradigm. For civic energy to meet this challenge, we argue that the potential for process optimization needs to be systematically assessed and propose a civic energy process design as a continuous improvement process in order to address the need for professionalization and capture the synergies presented by process standardization. The resulting Civic Energy Cycle deploys elements of creative destruction to identify alternative value propositions. The Cycle comprises Initiation, Planning, Roll-Out, Refection and Adoption phases, and a total of eleven process stages that extend beyond standardized technical and business processes; in addition to economic process objectives, the targeted social-economic and community benefits play a key role in shaping the process. The civic energy process is presented as a social transition framework that makes the shift in energy patterns manageable and acts as a mechanism that serves community needs.

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“…For firms, financial resources are also needed to effectively apply strategies, including marketing. Another aspect is the brand reputation and credibility that was created in earlier standardization processes, which can help with creating legitimacy [30,31]. Furthermore, when a firm has superior complementary assets, this can help to gain an advantage in the standardization process [27].…”

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“…'Technological superiority' is one aspect and refers to all aspects of the standard that make it better compared to other standards. It can be increased by adapting the standard to changing user requirements [30]. Another aspect relating to technological characteristics is 'compatibility' with e.g., a previous generation (backwards compatibility).…”

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Filtering Out Standard Success Criteria in the Case of Multi-Mode Standardization: Responsible Waste Water Treatment

Kaa

Eijnden²,

Doorn

2020

Sustainability

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Standardization can be achieved in multiple ways; firms may join forces and develop standards in standardization committees, they may compete directly on the market in standards battles, or governmental agencies may impose standards. This paper studies criteria for the selection of standards in a situation in which these three forms of standardization occur simultaneously (multi-mode standardization). The paper attempts to arrive at weights for these criteria by applying them to the case of phosphorus recovery from municipal waste water, a technological process that fits the transition to a circular economy but that is still lacking standardization. A contribution is made to the standardization literature by empirically studying the case of multi-mode standardization and by applying standard success criteria to the area of water treatment.

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Standards in transitions: Catalyzing infrastructure change

Cited by 33 publications

References 19 publications

Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook

Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook

A Process Approach to Mainstreaming Civic Energy

Filtering Out Standard Success Criteria in the Case of Multi-Mode Standardization: Responsible Waste Water Treatment

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