The Korean telecommunications services market has recently experienced an unprecedented growth in the wire-line broadband Internet access and mobile telephony markets. At 2004, 11 million households had broadband Internet access, while mobile telephony subscription reached 36 million—the corresponding penetration rates are 73% and 75%, respectively. By contrast, wire-line and wireless voice mar...

In 1994 the author was commissioned by a European telecommunications company to perform an economic analysis of both procedural and object-oriented programming languages used for telecommunications software. It is appropriate to revisit this study in 1997 using several years of additional data. The expansion of object-oriented (OO) programming languages and methodologies has brought with it a n...

This paper analyzes the efforts made by the Telefonica Group (the main Spanish firm in the telecommunications sector) to evolve from a bureaucratic culture to another oriented towards Total Quality and the customer. The need for this change came as a result of the liberalization in the telecommunications sector in the early nineties. This new context generated a problem that affected the basis ...

Founded in 1971, COST is an initiative by the European Commission (EC). The objective of COST is to coordinate nationally funded research at a European level in order to ensure that Europe holds a strong position in the fields of scientific and technical research. As such, COST stands for COoperation in the field of Science and Technology. Actions implemented in the COST framework are further c...

Telemedicine refers to the use of telecommunications technology to provide health care and medical information. The practice of medicine--and dermatology in particular--is undergoing a great upheaval due to advances in information technology. This article briefly reviews the origin, development, applications, benefits, methodology, and components of telemedicine. Specifically, we will analyze t...

This research shows that alliance networks shape how firms respond to uncertaintyreducing information generated outside a network. Product awards signal the potential commercial success of the award-winning firms, which reduces the uncertainty of new R&D investment. Networks magnify or diminish a firm’s R&D response to the market signals, depending on the firm’s network location, partners’ succ...

This chapter examines an implementation of an Activity-based Costing (ABC) system in a Portuguese telecommunications firm called Marconi. It is argued that they changed its management accounting system due to efficiency and institutional pressures from its constituencies following the liberalisation of the Portuguese and European Union telecommunications market. The replacement of Marconi’s “ol...

Local Number Portability (LNP) is a de facto requirement in most countries that are encouraging a competitive infrastructure. This requirement, written into Sections 251 and 271 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in the US, has been studied by various agencies in the UK since the early to mid 1990s, and was part of the telecommunications reform legislation in Australia. In addition, the EU i...

This is the fourth annual special issue of Industrial and Corporate Change devoted to research on telecommunications policy and strategy. The papers in this special issue represent research discussed at the annual conference of the Consortium for Research on Telecommunications Policy and Strategy, held at the University of Michigan Business School in Ann Arbor, during June, 1998. The Consortium...