TY  - JA
AU  - Loconto,A.
AU  - Busch,L.
TI  - Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields: performing the global market economy
SN  - 0969-2290
PY  - 2010///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Standards
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Governance
KW  - Globalization
N1  - Peer review
N2  - This paper explores the construction of what the authors term a ‘tripartite standards regime’ (TSR) by looking at the pragmatic emergence of standards development organizations (SDOs) and national accreditation bodies (NABs). The authors explain how, through their network of audit, the TSR is entangling intermediaries and processes into specific supply chains. Moreover, they argue that the emphasis placed on the role of ‘metrology’ is overstated in the literature. Rather, the concept of ‘standards’ better captures the more complex, underlying processes involved in the construction of the TSR. They present evidence gathered through a review of data collected from SDOs’ and NABs’ websites, official documents, international trade agreements, and the directories published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the International Organization for Standardization. They argue that the TSR acts as a techno-economic network that is global in reach and serves a key coordinating role in facilitating international trade. As such they see the TSR as fundamental to the movement towards ‘governing at a distance’ that is part and parcel of the neoliberal shift from government to governance
T2  - Review of International Political Economy
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290903319870
ER  -