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...

Customer relationship, work relationship and impact of managerial practices on employees' well being need to be studied as a whole. Customer service employees' management are focused on cost and efficiency, so human resource practices need to be investigated. Qualitative research led within 5...

While mobile data services in Europe have failed to trigger fresh growth in the mobile telecommunications market to-date, Japan and Korea are now considered the "champions" of mobile multimedia services. Through identification and analysis of success factors in these two countries, this paper...

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...

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...

Michel Didier et Jean-Hervé Lorenzi proposent dans ce 36ème rapport du CAE une analyse économique des enjeux et des perspectives de l'UMTS. Les deux auteurs présentent l'état de la technologie et examinent l'évolution de la structure du marché. Ils proposent également une prospective...

Internet has opened new roads to inform and entertain individuals. In the 1970s, the development of television deeply revolutionized domestic life but compared with the Internet, it seems not to be so dramatic. This paper focuses on interactive television as an attractive new media in comparison...

Les années 2000 sont celles du web 2.0 interactif et de l’essor des réseaux sociaux. Se profilent aujourd’hui les applications de géolocalisation, la mobiquité, l’intelligence ambiante, l’essor du web 3.0… Les médias et les nouveaux médias sont en mutation et participent de...