Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Voluntary consensus standard setting: Why it matters and how it arose; 2 How ISO works; 3 Infrastructure for a global market; 4 From quality management to social regulation; 5 Standards wars and the future of ISO; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
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