Do firm R&D investments drive decisions to join? On the value of standard-setting organizations in the consumer electronics industry

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gupta, Alok ^a   Kauffman, Robert J ^b   Wu, Amy Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Empirical research; IT investments; R D; Spillovers; Standard setting organizations; Standards; Theory development

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; IT INVESTMENTS; SPILLOVERS; STANDARD-SETTING ORGANIZATIONS; STANDARDS; THEORY DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DRIVES; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; JOINING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANITARY SEWERS;

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 51449110870     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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