The power of standards : : hybrid authority and the globalisation of services / / Jean-Christophe Graz.
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? G...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 258 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019). |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The rise of transnational hybrid authority: a primer; 2. Service offshoring: the new frontier of globalisation; 3. Standards as regulation; 4. Doubling security: prudential standards for insurance regulation; 5. Standards to create new insurance markets; 6. The world office; 7. Standards and business process outsourcing in India; Conclusions.