We study the impact of broadband penetration on social capital in the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits a technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access across households. The speed of a domestic connection...

The development of the digital economy and the emergence of new technologies are changing the way of doing business. In recent foreign direct investment (FDI) studies, factors in addition to conventional ownership-location-internalisation (OLI) factors have been explored to enrich the FDI model....

After the liberalization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) markets many potential providers have appeared. Thus, business complexity, for ICT decision makers, has increased. In this paper we focus on the problem of selecting the optimal business evolution path for ICT, focusing...

This paper provides a methodology for finding the optimum deployment strategy for ICT business activities in the context of initial infrastructure projects, which support a number of future investment opportunities. It treats these opportunities as real options (ROs) and assumes that there is a...