Nonstandardization

This nonstandardization can be quite dangerous, however, and completely undermines shared SA in these systems.

The lack of lens interchangeability among camera manufacturers is probably the hardest felt of all the nonstandardizations.

The waste of nonstandardization occurs when resources are needed to compensate and correct for processes that are completed in an arbitrary and unpredictable way because standards are ignored.

Where information is hardest to come by for social, political, or cultural reasons, and where shortage, nonstandardization, and hence uncertainty and unpredictability are greatest, one would expect relational contracting, with its reassuring recurrence and its catering to idiosyncrasy, to be the solution of chice. Thus, in economies where shortage, nonstandardization, and weak information channels are pronounced, we would expect to find a prevalence of relational contracting.