The paper discusses the so-called sharing economy from an industrial structure perspective. The illustrative cases examined are Airbnb and Uber. The research question raised is concerned with the extent to which transaction cost theory can be used to explain the changing industrial structures in...

The paper aims at analyzing the implications of symmetric telecom regulation on competition and investment in the telecom area. Symmetric regulation, where it is not only the operators with significant market power (SMP) at national or large geographical scales which are subject to special...

The paper answers the following questions: Whether the infrastructure sharing policy in Ghana has been able to achieve its core objective of preventing network tower investment duplication in single locations? And, whether the pricing strategy employed by tower owners encourages sharing? The...

This paper examines the impact of substitution of postal services with electronic communications and how this challenges the possibilities to maintain ubiquitous postal services with universal coverage. Denmark is used as an example, as this is one of the leading countries with regard to...

During the past few years, there has been a steeply increasing political interest in regulating Big Tech companies and digital platforms in general. For many years, from the establishment of the first Internet-based IT companies and onwards, the dominant political view has been that policymaking...

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Interaktionsweise von Firmen in Anbetracht der stetigen Zunahme von Business-to-Business E-commerce. Die Entwicklung von billigeren und stärker standardisierten Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken erweitert und intensiviert elektronische...

The research question addressed in this paper is concerned with the manners in which the general technological progress in mobile communications is presented and the reasons for the differences in these manners of presentation. The relevance of this research question is that the different...