Overview
- Shows that standardization is essential for sustainability
- Especially focuses on standardization education
- Includes a wealth of best practices and case studies
Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Cases of Education About Standardization
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Cases of Countries
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Stimulating Education About Standardisation
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Henk J. de Vries is Professor of Standardisation Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in the Department of Technology and Operations Management. He is a Visiting Professor at Delft University of Technology. His teaching and research focus on standardization from a business point of view. From 1994 until 2003, Henk worked with NEN, Netherlands Standardization Institute, in several roles, being responsible for R&D during the last period. Since 1994 he has an appointment at Erasmus University's School of Management and since 2004 he has been working full-time at this university. In 2009, the International Organization for Standardization ISO awarded his education about standardization as being best in the world. Henk is (co-)author of 380 publications onstandardization, including several books. Henk is President of the European Academy for Standardisation EURAS.
Ivana Mijatovic, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Bulgaria - Department of Quality Management and Standardization. She earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc. and PhD at the University of Belgrade. For much of her academic career she has focused on quality management and standardization. She is a passionate teacher - on bachelor level she teaches Quality Management Technologies, Quality Engineering (Six Sigma) and Quality Planning - on master and PhD level she teaches courses on Standardization. She serves on the boards of the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS) as a vice president, since 2012 and on the board of the Balkan Coordinating Committee for Standardization, Prototypes and Quality, since 2006. She is member of the national technical committee II/07 Software Engineering, IT for Education and Internet at Institute for Standardization of Serbia. Ivana has published more than 80 scientific articles in journals and conference proceedings. She is author of several textbooks and editor of various conference proceedings. Her current academic work addresses the question of ethical, social, economical and technological implications of standardization, teaching and education on standardization, as well as effects of standards implementation in companies that operate in developing countries.
Donggeun Choi, Ph.D is principal researcher for standardization research and cooperation in Korean Standards Association (KSA) since June 2000. His experience includes international cooperation, policy research, and education in the field of standardization and technical regulations in various committees of ISO, IEC, APEC, PASC, and ICES. Donggeun also visited Standards Coordination Office of NIST in the U.S. for standards education and policy study in 2012 – 2013. Donggeun has been project leaders of five projects for APEC standards education and professional development in 2007-2019. He is now the Chair and project leader for a new ISO IWA 30 project on ‘Competence Requirements for Standards Professionals.’ Donggeun has published and edited around thirty academic research articles and professional policy reports in the area of standardization, technical barriers to trade, regulatory governance and technology innovation in such journals as Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, Technovation, Scientometrics, ISO Focus, ASTM SNews, and SES Journal. He holds a PhD in Technology and Innovation Management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Knowledge and Education About Standardisation
Editors: Samuel O. Idowu, Henk J. de Vries, Ivana Mijatovic, Donggeun Choi
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28715-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28714-6Published: 08 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28717-7Published: 08 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28715-3Published: 27 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 221
Topics: Sustainability Management, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Development, Industrial Organization, Management Education, Corporate Social Responsibility