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When standards become business models: reinterpreting “failure” in the standardization paradigm
Tập 9 Số 5 - Trang 20-30 - 2007
PurposeThis paper aims to explore the question: “What is the relationship
between standards and business models?” and illustrate the conceptual linkage
with reference to developments in the mobile communications
industry.Design/methodology/approachA succinct overview of literature on
standardization, business models and platform markets in the paper leads to a
hypothesis on the relationship betwee...
Engendering communication: a perspective on ICT access and usage in Africa
Tập 13 Số 3 - Trang 125-141 - 2011
PurposeInformation communication technologies (ICTs) are widely seen as having
the potential to contribute positively to economic growth and development and to
improve the livelihoods and quality of life of individuals and households and
yet access to ICTs and usage of them remains highly inequitable. This paper aims
to identify areas of inequality in access to ICTs between men and women in
Africa...
What's wrong with competition policy in new media?
- 2005
PurposeAims to introduce the special issue “What's wrong with competition policy
in new media?” which is based on a series of seminars given in January‐March
2005 at Oxford University's Programme in Comparative Media Law and
Policy.Design/methodology/approachDiscusses the papers included in this special
issue.FindingsReveals that when it comes to the framework for commercial
broadcasting, the posi...
Should human resource managers use social media to screen job applicants? Managerial and legal issues in the USA
Tập 14 Số 1 - Trang 55-69 - 2012
PurposeThe purpose of the present paper is to describe managerial and US legal
issues associated with using social networking web sites (SNWs) such as Facebook
for personnel selection. Managers must consider the benefits and concerns that
using such information presents.Design/methodology/approachThe paper identifies
issues based on the academic literature, theoretical concepts, and current
manage...
Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement and Interaction
Tập 5 Số 4 - Trang 46-46 - 2003
International mobile roaming in the Caribbean
Tập 12 Số 4 - Trang 39-53 - 2010
PurposeThis paper aims to examine international mobile roaming in the
Caribbean.Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines first, the question of
the number of mobile phones and revenues; then secondly, it examines the
background to the roaming issue as it emerged in Europe. Thirdly, it looks at
regulatory initiatives in the Americas. Fourthly, it looks at issues related to
tourists, including...
The restructuring of African mobile telecommunications provision and the prospects for economic development
Tập 13 Số 2 - Trang 53-71 - 2011
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the recent restructuring of the
African mobile telecommunications sector, to examine how mobile
telecommunications supports economic development and to assess how such
development will be influenced by the
restructuring.Design/methodology/approachAn original database has been compiled
and linked to recent merger and acquisition activity in the African...
The mobile termination rate debate in Africa
Tập 14 Số 4 - Trang 5-20 - 2012
PurposeThis paper aims to demonstrate that call termination is not one side of a
two‐sided market and that a “waterbed effect” does not exist for
calling‐party's‐network‐pays (CPNP) markets where mobile termination rates are
being reduced towards the cost of an efficient
operator.Design/methodology/approachThe cases of Namibia, Kenya, South Africa,
Nigeria and Botswana are investigated and the imp...