The INTERNORM Project: Bridging Two Worlds of Expert- and Lay-Knowledge in Standardization

The INTERNORM Project: Bridging Two Worlds of Expert- and Lay-Knowledge in Standardization

Jean-Christophe Graz, Christophe Hauert
ISBN13: 9781466621602|ISBN10: 1466621605|EISBN13: 9781466621619
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2160-2.ch009
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Graz, Jean-Christophe, and Christophe Hauert. "The INTERNORM Project: Bridging Two Worlds of Expert- and Lay-Knowledge in Standardization." Innovations in Organizational IT Specification and Standards Development, edited by Kai Jakobs, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 154-164. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2160-2.ch009

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Graz, J. & Hauert, C. (2013). The INTERNORM Project: Bridging Two Worlds of Expert- and Lay-Knowledge in Standardization. In K. Jakobs (Ed.), Innovations in Organizational IT Specification and Standards Development (pp. 154-164). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2160-2.ch009

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Graz, Jean-Christophe, and Christophe Hauert. "The INTERNORM Project: Bridging Two Worlds of Expert- and Lay-Knowledge in Standardization." In Innovations in Organizational IT Specification and Standards Development, edited by Kai Jakobs, 154-164. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2160-2.ch009

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Abstract

This paper presents a pilot project to reinforce participatory practices in standardization. The INTERNORM project creates an interactive knowledge center based on the sharing of academic skills and experiences accumulated by the civil society, especially consumer associations, environmental associations and trade unions to strengthen the participatory process of standardization. The first objective of the project is action-oriented: INTERNORM provides a common knowledge pool supporting the participation of civil society actors to international standard-setting activities by bringing them together with academic experts in working groups and providing logistic and financial support to their participation in meetings of national and international technical committees. The second objective is analytical: the standardization action provides a research field for a better understanding of the participatory dynamics underpinning international standardization. This paper presents three incentives that explain civil society (non-)involvement in standardization that overcome conventional resource-based hypotheses: an operational incentive related to the use of standards in the selective goods provided by associations to their membership; a thematic incentive provided by the setting of priorities by strategic committees created in some standardization organization; and a rhetorical incentive related to the discursive resource that civil society concerns offers to the different stakeholders.

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