T echnology-sourcing relationships between firms involve one firm seeking access to another firm’s technology as embodied in its products, services, or capabilities. Studies on technology-intensive industries reveal the widespread use of such relationships. They span a continuum, ranging from non-equity arrangements at one end to complete ownership at the other. For instance, a pharmaceutical f...

Managed care plans--pressured by a variety of marketplace forces that have been intensifying over the past two years--are making important shifts in their overall business strategy. Plans are moving to offer less restrictive managed care products and product features that respond to consumers' and purchasers' demands for more choice and flexibility. In addition, because consumers and purchasers...

Femtocells have been suggested as a promising solution for the provision of indoor coverage and capacity. In this paper, a new planning strategy for placing femtocell access points so as to make the most of automatic traffic sharing algorithms is proposed for a long-term evolution (LTE) heterogeneous network. The aim of the proposed method is to increase overlapping between femtocells by increa...

This paper explores the role IT plays in business networks. Making sense of IT in such contexts requires being deep at the sub-micro level (where IT “interplays” with resources), and broad at the network level (where IT-based information flows cross firms boundaries). A conceptual framework is developed to tackle the roles of IT in business networks on the basis of illustrations about how IKEA ...

The Internet is often regarded as a revolutionary technology that in the long run will have immense consequences, both on our everyday life and on how business is conducted. Although still mainly used for content publishing, there are an increasing number of reported cases where it has enabled signi"cant business success. This paper attempts to provide evidence that Internet-enabled business in...

Spectrum scarcity forces mobile network operators (MNOs) providing mobile broadband services to develop new business models that address spectrum sharing. It engages MNOs into coopetitive relationship with incumbents. Licensed Shared Access (LSA) concept complements traditional licensing and helps MNOs to access new spectrum bands on a shared basis. This paper discusses spectrum sharing with LS...

In automotive development a lot of new power engine concepts were developed. Beneath the combustion engines hybrid drive systems and electric engines were developed. Consumers, public institutions and politics demand alternative drive systems to avoid air pollution, noise and the consumption of oil resources. Therefore electric drive products with innovative technologies were developed addition...

By researching the telecom operations support system and the business support system, a telecom product management framework is presented via integrated with the customer management system (CRM), especially integrated with the analytic CRM and the business intelligence system (BI). It includes five layers, information resource object layer, metadata database layer, basic services layer, informa...

BACKGROUND The initial days of a Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay may have no cost-sharing or daily copayments depending on beneficiaries' enrollment in traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage. Some policymakers have advocated imposing first-dollar cost-sharing to reduce post-acute expenditures. We examined the relationship between first-dollar cost-sharing for a SNF stay...