Organizations employ process standardization to reduce process variability and to ensure customer satisfaction. However, excessive standardization may hinder company competitiveness due to the lack of an ability to meet varying customer needs. There is a dearth of research regarding the impact of standardization on customer satisfaction as well as the organizational practices that can potentially foster this relationship. The present research proposes an alternative approach to understanding the practices that foster standardization in organizations: the research builds upon the notion of the closeness of process standardization and continuous improvement, and further proposes the framework of the standardization - customer satisfaction relationship within the wider network of organizational practices. The present study is one of the few attempts in the current literature to frame process standardization within the wider context of the continuous improvement process in the organization and thus makes a theoretical contribution to the advancement of the scant field of knowledge on process standardization in the areas of quality engineering and production systems management.