The article refers to the interplay between deregulation resp. liberalization of the telecommunications sector and the … market behaviour of TC-firms. In the past monopolization of the sector left the PTTs in a comfortable national monopolistic … of TC-firms played an essential part in realizing the process of deregulation – besides technological developments and …

that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks … DOME database which has been built up at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. On average, performance of merging and non …

study of Japan's silver market. It starts from the perspective that the source of competitive advantage under fundamental … cognitive conditions. The authors argue that the promise of the eventual size of the silver market is insufficient as an … explanation for market creation because of the uncertainties involved. Moreover, cultural traditions are much more varied than …