International standards and international trade: Empirical evidence from ISO 9000 diffusion

Diffusion of ISO 9000 standards and international trade

The Diffusion of Voluntary International Management Standards: Responsible Care, ISO 9000, and ISO 14001 in the Chemical Industry

This article analyzes the factors that explain the international diffusion of voluntary international management standards. We argue that international management standards should not be analyzed in isolation but in conjunction with other standards and their institutional environment. We present two opposite views explaining how the previous diffusion of management standards facilitates or hamp...

International Public Sector Accounting Standards, Good Governance and Crime Index: An International Evidence

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) on good governance and, therefore, crime index. To investigate this issue, data related to the status of the public sector accounting system, good governance indicators as well as crime index of 30 countries in the period 2015 to 2019 are collected and analyzed. This paper shows th...

The Trade Impact of ISO 9000 Certifications and International Cooperation in Accreditation

While it is widely acknowledged that international standards facilitate trade much less is known about certification requirements and mutually recognition of certification results. In our paper, we examine the impact of ISO 9000 certifications and the multilateral recognition arrangement for international acceptance of ISO 9000 certificates of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF-MLA) on ...

Social Standards in International Trade