Empirical Challenges
“… empirical reconstruction of standardization
processes is confronted with difficult problems
of gathering and interpreting ‘data’.... Thus, in
the final analysis not so much the problems
involved in theorizing about standardization
but rather the empirical difficulties of grasping
the ‘real world’ of standard–setting processes
may turn out to be the main impasse to this
on–going research process …”
Susanne K. Schmidt and Raymund Werle ,“The Development of Compatibility
Standards in Telecommunications: Conceptual Framework and
Theoretical Perspective” (1992)