Management theories and their relation to key research areas of Voluntary Standards
Management theories
1. Transaction Cost Theory
2. Resource Based View
3. Signaling Theory
4. Stakeholder Theory
5. Diffusion of Innovation Theory
6. Institutional Theory
7. Attitude Theory
8. High Reliability Theory
9. Organizational Learning Theory
Research areas in voluntary standards
1. Creation of meta-standards and implications
for global governance
2. International diffusion of meta-standards
3. Motivations to adopt meta-standards
4. Benefits of adoption and impact on
performance
5. Differences in adoption levels (internalization)
6. Integration of standards
7. Consultancy and auditing for meta-standards