Tekst achterflap
Standards play an important role within society, shaping many transactions between consumers and companies, citizens and governments, as well as customer/supplier relationships in the broadest sense. This book investigates the economic and strategic importance of standards in a small, strongly globalised economy. The case of Belgium is developed from both a macro-economic and micro-economic perspective. Based on an econometric model, the macro-economic part quantifies the impact of standards on welfare creation, and provides an international comparison of similar studies. The micro-economic part reports the detailed results of a survey with more than 600 respondents and analyses twelve case studies from a multi-sectoral selection of companies, based on in-depth interviews. This multi-layered approach provides stakeholders with an interest in standardization with an encompassing analysis of the economic and strategic impact of standards.
Biografie
Caroline Buts, Michaël Dooms, Kim Willems, Ellen Van Droogenbroeck, and Fanny Soyeur This book was created in collaboration with The Bureau for Standardisation (NBN). NBN is responsible for developing and selling standards in Belgium. In addition, NBN also organises training on the use of management standards.
