Print Email Facebook Twitter Exploring necessary conditions for standard success for complex systems Title Exploring necessary conditions for standard success for complex systems Author van de Kaa, G. (TU Delft Economics of Technology and Innovation) Date 2018 Abstract Many markets are characterized by increasing returns to adoption and, often, in such markets standards battles are fought (Suarez, 2004; Schilling 1998; Van de Kaa 2011). Literature on standards selection predominantly focuses on standards that are part of a new single product or system, such as the internet or a telecommunications network (Bekkers 2002; Funk 2002). In this paper we explore factors for standard dominance for systems that connect multiple already existing subsystems and new subsystems to form a new system. We conduct an analysis of six standards battles for complex systems that have been reported in the literature and find three necessary conditions for standard success for complex systems; technological superiority, network diversity and stakeholder commitment. We contribute to the ongoing research on standards battles by studying success factors for standards for complex systems. Practitioners that are involved in developing standards for such systems can utilize the results from this research in their strategies. Subject standards battlescase studiesdominant designscomplex systems To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6b120f26-6d04-45c8-9ba3-5032a81941b3 Publisher International Association for Management of Technology Source Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Management of Technology: Towards sustainable technologies and innovation, 27 Event 27th international conference on management of technology, 2018-04-23 → 2018-04-26, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2018 G. van de Kaa Files PDF Exploring_Necessary_Condi ... ystems.pdf 469.11 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6b120f26-6d04-45c8-9ba3-5032a81941b3/datastream/OBJ/view