The Political Standardizer

Frankel, Christian; Højbjerg, Erik

doi:10.1177/0007650309332311

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“…This would not imply that standards are necessarily neutral or value free. The technical nature of such processes does not mean that they are apolitical (Frankel & Højbjerg, 2009). A particular standard can also become a carrier for policy ideas that can be transferred to national contexts as spillovers of adopting the standards.…”

Section: Standardization: Policy Coordination 20 In the Eu?mentioning

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Standardization of (higher) education in Europe – policy coordination 2.0?

Elken

2017

Policy and Society

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the nordic institute for Studies in innovation, Research and education (niFU), oslo, norway ABSTRACTThe European educational landscape is changing. Education remains formally under the sphere of the nation states and has traditionally been resistant towards EU involvement. Several recent initiatives from joint policy-making point towards increased standardization as a key element of European integration in education and higher education. The article builds on the notion of standards-based governance and outlines this as a distinct mode for policy-making in the EU, emphasizing incentives and voluntary implementation, the use of expertise and technical calibration, their quasi-regulatory nature of the process. The article draws on a number of empirical examples to show how standards have been used for higher education policy on EU level.

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Section: Standardization: Policy Coordination 20 In the Eu?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Standardization of (higher) education in Europe – policy coordination 2.0?

Elken

2017

Policy and Society

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“…Our case reveals a dimension of this type of entrepreneurship that discussions of institutional entrepreneurs often gloss over; that is, political strategies materialize with the technical activities of setting standards and controlling their implementation (Garud et al . ; Frankel & Højbjerg ). Put differently, ISEAL's entrepreneurship is more than purely setting the agenda, as many of its activities are rulemaking and seeking ways to enforce the rules (Keck & Sikkink ).…”

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“…Standards are described as playing a fundamental role in institutional emergence and the creation of organizational fields (DiMaggio & Powell ) where standards shape, and are shaped by, diverse actors and institutional logics (Mendel ; Bartley ; Dingwerth & Pattberg ). These characterizations of standards suggest that actors use the development, implementation, and compliance with standards as ways to forward political agendas through seemingly technical activities (Bowker & Star ; Frankel & Højbjerg ).…”

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Politics of private regulation:ISEALand the shaping of transnational sustainability governance

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Fouilleux

2013

Regulation & Governance

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Scholars describe the proliferation of sustainability standards by multi-stakeholder initiatives as part of an organizational field for sustainability. The aim of this article is to gain a better understanding of the institutionalization process of this global organizational field by focusing on the case of the ISEAL Alliance (the global association for sustainability standards). We show how ISEAL puts specific strategies into place to both reinforce and expand the role and influence of sustainability standards. This institutional entrepreneurship consists primarily of two dimensions: institutionalizing macro-standards based on a marketdriven and procedural vision of sustainability; and simultaneously legitimating both the tools and ISEAL through internal and external enrolments and entanglements. The characterization of ISEAL's activities in this way brings politics back into the analysis of sustainability standard-related technical debates and extends our understanding of how the micro-dynamics within organizational fields are interdependent upon macro-dynamics outside organizational fields.

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“…Indeed that accelerated voluntary use was a major influence on the decision by the EU to make their use mandatory. The lengthy process was political both in the sense of struggles within and between countries/regions and in that the technical and the political were intertwined (Frankel and Højberg, 2009). Constestation between interested parties retarded transnationalization in some circumstances, but it accelerated it in others.…”

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The Transnationalization of Financial Reporting Standards

McSweeney

2010

SSRN Journal

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2The School of Management Working Paper Series is published to circulate the results of on-going research to a wider audience and to facilitate intellectual exchange and debate. The papers have been through a refereeing process and will subsequently be published in a revised form. Requested for permission to reproduce any article or part of Working paper should be sent to the publisher of this series. Specifically it considers how the status of International Financial Reporting Standardsconstructed and issued by a private organization: the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) -changed from being highly marginal to almost global adoption. A range of explanations (rather than just one) for the transformation are examined and contrary (or rather disruptive) evidence, not just supportive, is considered. Having examined a variety of explanations, the paper then considers whether or not the now extensive transnationalisation of financial reporting can be regarded as evidence that the period of national or regional varieties of capitalism (or business systems) is ending. The

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The Political Standardizer

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Standardization of (higher) education in Europe – policy coordination 2.0?

Standardization of (higher) education in Europe – policy coordination 2.0?

Politics of private regulation:ISEALand the shaping of transnational sustainability governance

The Transnationalization of Financial Reporting Standards

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