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oapen-20.500.12657-414352020-08-26T00:50:34Z The power of standards Graz, Jean-Christophe private authority power India insurance offshoring global governance standards services global political economy globalisation regulation hybrid bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical arguments, compelling research and surprising evidence on the role of standards in the global expansion of services, with in-depth studies of their institutional environment and cases including the insurance industry and business process outsourcing in India. The power of standards resembles a form of transnational hybrid authority, in which ambiguity should be seen as a generic attribute, defining not only the status of public and private actors involved in standardisation and regulation, but also the scope of issues concerned and the space in which such authority is recognised when complying to standards. 2020-08-25T12:11:24Z 2020-08-25T12:11:24Z 2019 book ONIX_20200825_9781108759038_7 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41435 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781108759038.pdf http://www.cambridge.org/9781108499866 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781108759038 10.1017/9781108759038 7607a2d0-47af-490f-9d2a-8c9340266f8a 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Cambridge 10BP12_185566 Open Access Books The Power of standards: Hybrid authority and the globalisation of services Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical arguments, compelling research and surprising evidence on the role of standards in the global expansion of services, with in-depth studies of their institutional environment and cases including the insurance industry and business process outsourcing in India. The power of standards resembles a form of transnational hybrid authority, in which ambiguity should be seen as a generic attribute, defining not only the status of public and private actors involved in standardisation and regulation, but also the scope of issues concerned and the space in which such authority is recognised when complying to standards.
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