Is a European spectrum policy a pre-requisite to the single market? Or, conversely, is the single market a pre-requisite to a European spectrum policy? The answer to this question leads to a different choice of regulatory system. Enforcing a European spectrum policy to build a single market...

This paper analyzes the evolution of the Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) institution in Europe in the light of the New Institutional Economics. The paper uses the "four levels of institutional analysis" framework developed by Williamson to analyze and shed light on limits of the current RSM...

The firm of today differs from the firm even some twenty years ago. Shift in industrial organization is prompted by technological advances, pertaining in particular to advances in information and communication technologies, that enable previously non-existent means of intra- and inter-firm...

Today's firm is a complex nexus of interactions, which it facilitates and regulates; it supports market activity by providing the participants with basic resources. Market failures form the foundation of this phenomenon; they create business opportunities that firms address through market...

The mobile industries went through many (r)evolutions that increased their performance, triggered new usages and contributed to the vast popularity of mobile handsets. Some evolutions were pushed by the regulators, some were technological, some were marketing-related and others were business...

Stable business ecosystems at times are subjected to endogenous or exogenous gravity shocks either due to emergence of high-gravity player(s) within the ecosystem, or as a consequence of entry of high-gravity player(s), respectively. In this paper, we introduce the term gravity, i.e. the density...

Companies create their business ecosystems through platform strategies. This article explores the conditions for the emergence of this phenomenon in situations of market failures. It studies how platforms substitute market to play a coordinating role and governance of economic actors. The...

In the recent years, the mobile industry has experienced important changes in its very structure shifting from an operator-centric model to a burgeoning business ecosystem (ANDERSON & WILLIAMS, 2004; BASOLE, 2009; BASOLE & ROUSE, 2009; GUEGUEN & ISCKIA, 2008) made of various players including mobile...