The international organization for standardization (iso) (Global Institutions)

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the first full-length study of the largest nongovernmental, global regulatory network whose scope and influence rivals that of the UN system.    Much of the interest in the successes and failures of global governance focuses around high profile organisations such as the United Nations, World Bank and World Trade Organisation. This volume is one of few books that explore both the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) role as a facilitator of essential economic infrastructure and the implication of ISO techniques for a much wider realm of global governance.    Through detailing the initial rationale behind the ISO and a systematic discussion of how this low profile organization has developed, Murphy and Yates provide a comprehensive survey of the ISO as a powerful force on the way commerce is conducted in a changing and increasingly globalized world.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO): Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus (Global Institutions)

Business & Money

Murphy, Craig N.

Yates, JoAnne

Economics

Routledge

Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management (Studies in Industry and Society)

A superb historical analysis of the philosophical and technological forces that led to the development of communication genres and processes in the modern American corporation.

Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management (Studies in Industry and Society, 6)

Management & Leadership

Johns Hopkins University Press

Structuring the Information Age provides insight into the largely unexplored evolution of information processing in the commercial sector and the underrated influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technology. 
JoAnne Yates examines how life insurance firms―where good record-keeping and repeated use of massive amounts of data were crucial―adopted and shaped information processing technology through most of the twentieth century. The book analyzes this process beginning with tabulating technology, the most immediate predecessor of the computer, and continuing through the 1970s with early computers. Yates elaborates two major themes: the reciprocal influence of information technology and its use, and the influence of past practices on the adoption and use of new technologies. In the 1950s, insurance industry leaders recognized that computers would enable them to integrate processes previously handled separately, but they also understood that they would have to change their ways of working profoundly to achieve this integration. When it came to choosing equipment and applications, most companies ultimately preferred a gradual, incremental migration to an immediate and radical transformation. 
In tracing this process, Yates shows that IBM's successful transition from tabulators to computers in part reflected that vendor's ability to provide large customers such as insurance companies with the necessary products to allow gradual change. In addition, this detailed industry case study helps explain information technology's so-called productivity paradox, showing that firms took roughly two decades to achieve the initial computerization and process integration that the industry set as objectives in the 1950s.

Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Industry and Society)

Computers & Technology

Structuring the Information Age provides insight into the largely unexplored evolution of information processing in the commercial sector and the underrated influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technology. JoAnne Yates examines how life insurance firms-where good record-keeping and repeated use of massive amounts of data were crucial-adopted and shaped information processing technology through most of the twentieth century. The book analyzes this process beginning with tabulating technology, the most immediate predecessor of the computer, and continuing through the 1970s with early computers. Yates elaborates two major themes: the reciprocal influence of information technology and its use, and the influence of past practices on the adoption and use of new technologies. In the 1950s, insurance industry leaders recognized that computers would enable them to integrate processes previously handled separately, but they also understood that they would have to change their ways of working profoundly to achieve this integration. When it came to choosing equipment and applications, most companies ultimately preferred a gradual, incremental migration to an immediate and radical transformation. In tracing this process, Yates shows that IBM's successful transition from tabulators to computers in part reflected that vendor's ability to provide large customers such as insurance companies with the necessary products to allow gradual change. In addition, this detailed industry case study helps explain information technology's so-called productivity paradox, showing that firms took roughly two decades to achieve the initial computerization and process integration that the industry set as objectives in the 1950s.

Teaching Writing in the Content Areas Senior High School

Education & Teaching

Tchudi, Stephen N.

Schools & Teaching

Natl. Council of Teachers of English

Book by Tchudi, Stephen N., Yates, Joanne

Teaching Writing in the Content Areas: Senior High School

Natl Education Assn

Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 (Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics)

The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.
Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the Internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig Murphy trace the standard-setting system's evolution through time, revealing a process with an astonishingly pervasive, if rarely noticed, impact on all of our lives. 
Standard setting was established in the 1880s, when engineers aimed to prove their status as professionals by creating useful standards that would be widely adopted by manufacturers while satisfying corporate customers. Yates and Murphy explain how these engineers' processes provided a timely way to set desirable standards that would have taken much longer to emerge from the market and that governments were rarely willing to set. By the 1920s, the standardizers began to think of themselves as critical to global prosperity and world peace. After World War II, standardizers transcended Cold War divisions to create standards that made the global economy possible. Finally, Yates and Murphy reveal how, since 1990, a new generation of standardizers has focused on supporting the Internet and Web while applying the same standard-setting process to regulate the potential social and environmental harms of the increasingly global economy.
Drawing on archival materials from three continents, including newly uncovered documents contributed by key standard setters, interviews, and direct observation of recent Web-related standard setting, Yates and Murphy describe the positive ideals that sparked the standardization movement, the ways its leaders tried to realize those ideals, and the challenges the movement faces today. An in-depth history of the engineers and organizations that developed and operate the vast yet inconspicuous global infrastructure of private, consensus-based standard setting, Engineering Rules is a riveting global history of the people, processes, and organizations that created and maintain this nearly invisible infrastructure of today's economy, which is just as important as the state or the global market.

History

Americas

Review\nEvery standards professional should own this book. Bottom line―an A+.\nBy recounting the story of standardization, Yates and Murphy demonstrate how human and organizational actions slowly sediment into institutions that melt into the background of our lives.\nYates and Murphy provide an engaging narrative about the people and processes responsible for making the technologies we have today work with one another\nThe book is an extraordinarily detailed history of the movement from national to international standards creation and use. It introduces as its heroes . . . a series of men of rectitude and accomplishment who selflessly built the practice.\nA comprehensive, readable account of private standard setting that should interest legal scholars, lawyers, and law students. Yates and Murphy have provided a great service with their illuminating history of the private world of standard setting.\nThis book is history at its finest. It is not only a technical and business history of engineering standards but also a deeply researched social history of communities of standardizers. It is also elegantly written―a testament to Yates's and Murphy's research and writing skills. Historians of capitalism and technology will find it required reading, but this book also stands a fair chance of engaging a mass readership.\nA deeply researched and well-crafted examination of one of the key invisible infrastructures of the modern world: private consensus-based industrial standards. Aptly combining their respective expertise, the authors have written an impressive and highly detailed treatment of the emergence of standards-setting bodies, their networks, and their legion of activities. Standards geeks, of which there are thousands, will want to read this book―the first volume of its kind. 
―Thomas J. Misa, University of Minnesota, coauthor of FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World\nToo many of us who labor in the vineyards of global governance spend our time on visible, formal international organizations. Yates and Murphy do not. Drawing on a century and a half of archives and anecdotes, they demonstrate the crucial impact of private and informal standard-setting on our daily lives. This fascinating tale is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the major changes in the global economy. 
―Thomas G. Weiss, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, coeditor of International Organization and Global Governance\nFrom trains to planes to household electric plugs, unseen committees of engineers have been making our technologies work together for decades. This fascinating book explains how they've done it and offers compelling lessons to historians, technologists, and policy makers alike. Highly recommended. 
―Fred Turner, Stanford University, author of The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties\nDrawing on interviews, personal correspondence, and other unconventional sources, Yates and Murphy make a compelling case that voluntary private standardizers were motivated by non-economic forces. A critical contribution to our deliberation about whether this vital activity of consensual decision-making that elevated the profession in the twentieth century will survive in the next. 
―Margaret B. W. Graham, McGill University, coauthor of Corning and the Craft of Innovation\nThis thought-provoking book describes significant cultural and institutional changes in Western standardization since 1880. It is the fascinating story of differences―but also similarities―in initiatives, (self)organization, and social movements over time, from precursors of IEC and ISO to industry consortia and newcomers like ISEAL. It talks about flesh and blood standardization entrepreneurs and the hopes, frustrations, and wondrous feats of standardizers in technical committees. Not least, this historical account invites us to critically self-examine where we are now. 
―Tineke M. Egyedi, Delft Inst

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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO): Global Governance through Voluntary Consensus (Global Institutions)

Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management (Studies in Industry and Society, 6)

Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Industry and Society)

Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Industry and Society)

Teaching Writing in the Content Areas Senior High School

Teaching Writing in the Content Areas: Senior High School

Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 (Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics)

Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 (Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics)