TY - GEN
T1 - An empirical examination of open standards development
AU - Shah, Rajiv
AU - Kesan, Jay P.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This project uses empirical data to provide insights into the impact of open standards. This work moves beyond the existing literature by considering a large number of open standards, instead of handpicked case studies. The results of this research will be timely, as governments are advocating and sometimes mandating the use of open standards. We found inequalities in the impact of open standards that suggest a power law relationship, found that the duration of the development process does not affect the impact of a standard, and found the length of a standard (number of words), which reflects the technical complexity of a standard, affects the impact of a standard.
AB - This project uses empirical data to provide insights into the impact of open standards. This work moves beyond the existing literature by considering a large number of open standards, instead of handpicked case studies. The results of this research will be timely, as governments are advocating and sometimes mandating the use of open standards. We found inequalities in the impact of open standards that suggest a power law relationship, found that the duration of the development process does not affect the impact of a standard, and found the length of a standard (number of words), which reflects the technical complexity of a standard, affects the impact of a standard.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2008.49
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2008.49
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51449121242
SN - 0769530753
SN - 9780769530758
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2008, HICSS
T2 - 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2008, HICSS
Y2 - 7 January 2008 through 10 January 2008
ER -