This special issue, featuring articles by Luca Andreoni, Malin Dahlström, Igor Goñi-Mendizabal, Francesca Sanna, Dirk Wiegand, addresses the role of standardization in the contemporary economy and its historical development. Modern markets rely on a complex system of rules, technical specifications, and guidelines produced by numerous organizations and experts. Although often voluntary and largely invisible to final users, standards regulate product features, production processes, safety requirements, and quality, thereby structuring economic activity and market coordination. From the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries onward, industrialization, technological change, and the expansion of international trade led to the creation of national and international standardization bodies and to the rapid proliferation of formal technical norms.

Il numero monografico comprende articoli di Luca Andreoni, Malin Dahlström, Igor Goñi-Mendizabal, Francesca Sanna e Dirk Wiegand. Essi affrontano da diversi profili il ruolo della standardizzazione nell’economia contemporanea e il suo sviluppo storico. I mercati moderni si basano su un complesso sistema di regole, specifiche tecniche e linee guida elaborate da numerose organizzazioni ed esperti. Sebbene spesso volontari e in gran parte invisibili agli utenti finali, gli standard regolano le caratteristiche dei prodotti, i processi produttivi, i requisiti di sicurezza e la qualità, contribuendo così a strutturare l’attività economica e il coordinamento dei mercati. Dalla fine del XIX-inizio del XX secolo, l’industrializzazione, il cambiamento tecnologico e l’espansione del commercio internazionale hanno portato alla creazione di organismi di standardizzazione nazionali e internazionali e alla rapida proliferazione di norme tecniche formali.

Fumi, G., Lavista, F. D. L. (eds.), Standards: shared rules or tools of power? Technical standardization and the evolution of business and economy in the contemporary age, <<RICERCHE DI STORIA ECONOMICA E SOCIALE>>, 2024; 2024: (1-2): 183 . 10.17426/R10C00 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/332376]

Standards: shared rules or tools of power? Technical standardization and the evolution of business and economy in the contemporary age

Fumi, Gianpiero;Lavista, Fabio Dario Luigi
2024

Abstract

This special issue, featuring articles by Luca Andreoni, Malin Dahlström, Igor Goñi-Mendizabal, Francesca Sanna, Dirk Wiegand, addresses the role of standardization in the contemporary economy and its historical development. Modern markets rely on a complex system of rules, technical specifications, and guidelines produced by numerous organizations and experts. Although often voluntary and largely invisible to final users, standards regulate product features, production processes, safety requirements, and quality, thereby structuring economic activity and market coordination. From the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries onward, industrialization, technological change, and the expansion of international trade led to the creation of national and international standardization bodies and to the rapid proliferation of formal technical norms.
2024
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Fumi, G., Lavista, F. D. L. (eds.), Standards: shared rules or tools of power? Technical standardization and the evolution of business and economy in the contemporary age, <<RICERCHE DI STORIA ECONOMICA E SOCIALE>>, 2024; 2024: (1-2): 183 . 10.17426/R10C00 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/332376]
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