theorywatch

I am anxiously awaiting JoAnne Yates’s book on the internationalization of standards. She was one of the theorists at MIT that I interviewed for my dissertation, and, judging by her previous work in a number of areas, especially the role of systems in American managerial thinking, I suspect that she’ll have some very provocative things to say about standards in general (though perhaps not those standards of particular interest to the LIS community). The information society runs on standards, however, so her book is sure to “set the standard” for future work on this.