The organizers of the Second Annual Conference on Institutional Foundations for Industry Self-Regulation are issuing an open invitation to attend this event. The conference will take place on February 16th and 17th at the Harvard Business School. An agenda, registration form and additional information can be found at the conference web site: http://www.hbs.edu/units/tom/conferences/isr2007.html
The goal of the conference is to convene scholars researching institutional mechanisms for solving industry-wide problems in a wide array of domains. (Examples include open source communities, professional codes of conduct, ratings organizations, standard setting bodies, and a variety of private-sector alternatives to government regulation.) This year's conference highlights research on institutions for multi-lateral collaboration, such as open source communities or knowledge sharing organizations. We hope that you will seriously consider attending.
Sincerely,
Mike Toffel, Andrew King, Mike Lenox & Tim Simcoe