This paper examines exclusionary practices allegedly used by Intel to maintain its dominant position in sales of microprocessors for IBM-compatible personal computers (PCs), focusing primarily on the preferential allocation of scarce product among customers. The paper considers the period...

About the end of 2006, Microsoft began delivering its new Windows Vista PC operating system to large commercial customers, followed by final users and small businesses. Even before the product reached the market, the dominant provider of PC operating systems worldwide was accused over and over...

About the end of 2006, Microsoft began delivering its new Windows Vista PC operating system to large commercial customers, followed by final users and small businesses. Even before the product reached the market, the dominant provider of PC operating systems worldwide was accused over and over...

This paper examines the influence of investments in China and brand-developing potential on operating performances (technical efficiency, return on assets, and Tobin's Q) with data drawn from samples of listed information-electronics industry firms in Taiwan between 1999 and 2003. We first apply...

This paper examines the joint pricing decision of products in a firm's product line. When products are distinguished by a vertical characteristic, those with higher values of that characteristic will command higher prices. We investigate whether, holding the value of the characteristic constant,...

In this article, we analyse how the European legislator is currently responding to some of the recent changes in the media and communications environment with the adoption of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. What is the European approach to address the challenges brought about by the...

This paper documents a systematic shift in the nature of innovation in information technology (IT) toward increasing dependence on software. Using a broad panel of U.S. and Japanese publicly listed IT firms in the period 1983 to 2004, we show that this change in the nature of IT innovation had...

This article deals with the structuring process of the territory by the private and publics actors?strategies in the microelectronic industry localized in the « pays d?Aix ». Here, we present the main results of our inquiry realized about the industrial establishments in...

The aim of the paper is to discuss the new sequential and cumulative approaches of location process based on non-market interactions. We distinguish between the role played by network externalities and the one played by information externalities in order to distinguish locational clusters and...

Through the Taiwanese experience of the Hsinchu Science Based Industrial Park, this article aims at answering to the question : can a growth pole can become an industrial district ? Created by the government, technopoles are not supposed to become socio-economic territories regulated by values...