Table of contents : Title......Page 2 Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 Detailed Table of Contents......Page 10 Preface......Page 16 An Integrated View of E-Business and the Underlying ICT Infrastructure......Page 22 The Demand for E-Government Standards......Page 30 A Taxonomy of Service Standards and a Modification for E-Business......Page 45 Business Models and the Dynamics of Supply and Demand for Standards......Page 52 Emergence of Standardisation Processes: Linkage with Users......Page 74 Perceived Relation between ICT Standards’ Sources and their Success in the Market......Page 86 How to Select the Best Platformfor ICT Standards Development......Page 102 The Shaping of the IEEE 802.11 Standard: The Role of the Innovating Firm in the Case of Wi-Fi......Page 119 The Evolution of e.Business: Can Technology Supply meet the Full Business Demand?......Page 148 China’s Practice of Implementing a 3G MobileTelecommunications Standard: A Transaction Costs Perspective......Page 161 International Framework for Collaboration between European and Japanese Standard Consortia: The Case of the Automotive LAN Protocol......Page 173 Between Supply and Demand: Coping with the Impact of Standards Change......Page 192 Open Standards and Government Policy......Page 209 Developing Measures and Standards for the European Electronic Signatures Market......Page 222 Quality Standardization Patterns in ICT Offshore......Page 240 An Overview of Models and Standards of Processes in the SE, SwE, and IS Disciplines......Page 257 E-Business Standardization in the Automotive Sector: Role and Situation of SMEs......Page 274 Compilation of References......Page 291 About the Contributors......Page 307 Index......Page 312