Factors Affecting De Jure Standards’ Adoption by Dutch High-Tech Start-Ups: An exploratory, comparative case study into the factors affecting de jure standards’ adoption by Dutch high-tech start-ups and the potential influencing thereof by the Dutch standards organization.

The effects of standardization on entrepreneurship are a research field for which a lot still needs to be done. In particular, there is little research into the adoption of de jure standards by entrepreneurs. These standards are the product of committee-based standardization, which is when committees consisting of stakeholders that are related...