Engineering Rules

JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management and Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century. Craig N. Murphy is the Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is the author of The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? and International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850.

Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction Part I. The First Wave 1. Engineering Professionalization and Private Standard Setting for Industry before 1900 2. Organizing Private Standard Setting within and across Borders, 1900 to World War I 3. A Community and a Movement, World War I to the Great Depression Part II. The Second Wave 4. Decline and Revival of the Movement, the 1930s to the 1950s 5. Standards for a Global Market, the 1960s to the 1980s 6. US Participation in International RFI/EMC Standardization, World War II to the 1980s Part III. The Third Wave 7. Computer Networking Ushers in a New Era in Standard Setting, 1980s to 2000s 8. Development of the W3C WebCrypto API Standard, 2012 to 2017 9. Voluntary Standards for Quality Management and Social Responsibility since the 1980s Conclusion Essay on Primary Sources Notes Index

Every standards professional should own this book. Bottom line-an A+. * Standards Engineering * By 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. * Administrative Science Quarterly * Yates and Murphy provide an engaging narrative about the people and processes responsible for making the technologies we have today work with one another * New Books Network * The 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. * Yale Journal on Regulation * A 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. * The Regulatory Review * This 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. * Business History Review *