The regulation of network industries has been profoundly transformed in the past twenty years. First, the “object of regulation” is no longer the same. Network industries have been opened to new dynamics, which have overwhelmed their industrial, technological and marketing frameworks. The...

The study proposes analyzing the complex links between the standardization and regulation of mobile phone markets from a political economy perspective. Moreover, this study examines these links by taking into consideration, from a Schumpeterian perspective, the market disequilibrium and the...

This paper aims at understanding what the consequences are of cultural diversity on co-operative relationships. Co-operation is considered through two different modes: the first one, called community based co-operation, is based on the need for belonging and the second mode, called complementary...

This paper explores the consequences of cultural diversity on co-operative relationships. It postulates two different modes of co-operation: ‘community based co-operation’, based on the need to belong, and ‘complementary co-operation’, which seeks to harness strategic resources. These...

Digital Technologies make it possible to decentrally settle institutional frameworks based on self-implementation of exclusive rights of use over information and on the self-regulation of on-line communities. Through a decentralized system of IPRs and collective rules setting of this kind agents...

Claudio Ciborra est un auteur majeur de la théorie des organisations et des systèmes d'information anglo-saxons. Ses travaux sont cependant relativement méconnus dans le champ francophone des sciences de gestion. Nous proposons ici de résumer l'essentiel de ses recherches et de montrer en...

The aim of our paper is to determine the efficiency of the asymmetric regulation of the Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) in a market where the firms are differentiated in size and with commercial offers that include calling club effects. Major regulatory issues are related to these analyses,...