Telecoms in the Internet Age. From boom to bust to - ?
Details:
- Author(s) Fransman, Martin
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2002
- Pages 290pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Comparative international studies
Countries:
- France
- Germany
- United States
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Notes:
Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 2002. Scholarly account. Has sections: 'Explaining the telecoms boom and bust, 1996-2002'; 'Evolution of the telecommunications industry in the internet age'; 'AT&T, BT, and NTT - super-adapters or dinosaurs in an age of climate change?'; 'Deutsche Telekom - Europe's giant struggling to globalize'; 'France Telecom - France's Europeanizing incumbent'; 'The new entrepreneurs in the telecoms Industry'; 'COLT - an American telecoms operator in Europe'; 'The changing knowledge base - co-evolving R&D in telecoms network operators'; 'Mobile internet - explaining Japanese success and European failure'; 'Conclusion - shareout, consolidation and the restoration of profitability'