Research Catalog

Title

Organizing international standardization : ISO and the IASC in quest of authority / Kristina Tamm Hallström.

Author

Hallström, Kristina Tamm, 1964-

Publication

Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2004.

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Description

vi, 214 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book investigates the ways in which global standardization organizations establish, negotiate, and maintain their authority and legitimacy, thereby inducing companies, states, and other organizations to adopt and implement the voluntary standards they produce."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• International Accounting Standards Committee
• International Organization for Standardization
• Standardization
• Accounting > Standards

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-205) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Growing Practice of Standardization -- 2. Research on Standardization -- 3. Research Design -- 4. The ISO Committee and the Quality Field -- 5. The IASC and the Accounting Field -- 6. Debates in the ISO Committee and the IASC -- 7. Strategies to Achieve Compliance with Standards -- 8. Tensions in the Work on Standardization -- 9. Differences Between the ISO Committee and the IASC -- 10. Mobile Networks for Regulation.

ISBN

1843764814

LCCN

^^2003069124

OCLC

53839986

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library