Preface to the Research on Standards in the Mobile Communications Industry

In this chapter, the Self-Organized Complexity Unfolding Model and the Framework of Organizational Standards Strategy are applied and explored further to the evolution of standards in the mobile communications industry. To introduce the mobile communications industry, three different infrastructures that presently exist at the beginning of the 21st century for communication over long distances are discussed. The reason to present them is to illustrate the position of the mobile communications industry in our society and how it is related to other industries.