The USA suffers a large and growing balance of payments deficit in the telecommunications sector, a phenomenon often blamed on the international accounting rate system. The experience of other countries suggests that this explanation is too simple, however. This article concludes from a new...

This paper makes a case for compiling a new set of industry statistics based upon MiTT -- minutes of telecommunications traffic. For most countries, telecommunication flows are a statistical 'lack hole'. Annual reports are the rule; there is no common unit of account; and data on traffic flows is...

This project examined the relationship of national diversity in team makeup on an international expansion decision. Decisions of homogeneous and nationally diverse teams were compared in an experimental study. Nationally diverse teams took significantly longer to reach decisions, and considered...