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Following the ‘social shaping of technology’ approach, this paper provides a brief discussion of the relations that exist between different stakeholders in ICT standardisation. It then discusses the impact exerted by the individuals who populate a standards body’s working group, and how this body’s voting rules impact its final standards. The paper primarily draws upon a qualitative empirical study. In particular, it will use the IEEE 802.11 committee as a real-world sample group to further highlight the issues discussed more theoretically above.
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Jakobs, K. (2011). How People and Stakeholders Shape Standards: The Case of IEEE 802.11. In: Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Web Information Systems and Technologies. WEBIST 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22810-0_1
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