Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • List of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Global Economy and Digital Society: An Introduction
  • Part I : Global Economy and Digital Markets: Boom and Bust?
  • Chapter 2. The Telecoms Boom and Bust, 1996-2002: Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Processing
  • Chapter 3. The Emerging Cyclicality of the Telecom Industry
  • Chapter 4. Rethinking the Role of E-Commerce in B2B and B2C Transactions: Complementing Location, Personal Interactions and Pre-existing Relations
  • Part II: Global Economy and Digital Technology
  • Chapter 5. OECD Growth Blocs and the Role of ICT
  • Chapter 6. Information Technology, Efficiency, and Productivity Growth in the Japanese Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing Sectors
  • Chapter 7. The Impact of Korean Telecommunications Sector on Regional Output and Input Trade: Country-Level Study in the Asia-Pacific Region
  • Part III: Digital Goods: Theoretical Investigation
  • Chapter 8. Price Dispersion in the Internet Marketplace: Are Service-premium Strategies Relevant?
  • Chapter 9. Disclosure of Source Code to a Technologically Advanced Entrant
  • Chapter 10. Weighing the Intangible: Towards a Theory-based Framework for Information Society Indices
  • Part IV: ICT Market Evolution and the Digital Society
  • Chapter 11. Applying the Principle of Modularity to the Internet QoS Service Model Design
  • Chapter 12. Determinants of Customer Retention for Korean High-speed Internet Services
  • Chapter 13. The Analysis of Broadband Demand Using Data on Willingness-to-pay
  • Chapter 14. Drivers of Demand Growth for Mobile Telecommunications Services: Evidence from International Panel Data
  • Part V: Policy Aspects of the Digital Society
  • Chapter 15. Institutional Arrangements of Regional Regulatory Regimes: Telecommunications Regulation in the European Union and the Limits to Policy Convergence
  • Chapter 16. Effects of Prices for Local Network Interconnection on Market Structure in the US
  • Chapter 17. Rationalizing Interconnection Arrangements in Competitive Communications Markets
  • Chapter 18. Interconnection Policy Regimes and Global Strategic Alliance Activity in the Telecom Industry
  • Chapter 19. Convergence Phenomenon and New Service Development in the Telecommunications Industry
  • Chapter 20. What the World Trade Center Attack has Shown us About our Communications Networks
  • Chapter 21. Network Resilience and its Regulatory Inhibitors
  • Author Information
  • Bibliographical Information
  • Author Coordinates
  • Index
  • Last Page.