A little more than 3 billion people have access to basic mobile telephony, with 48% living close to or below the poverty line. These people, the so-called 'mass market', lack access to basic communications technology. An ongoing issue facing communications providers is how to facilitate and...

Nowadays, a great challenge to create business models based on electronic strategies has caused the traditional brick-and-mortar enterprises to change to click-and-mortar enterprises. Without the capacity for designing successful models and knowing the standards related to a given industry, such...

The objective of the paper was to propose a new business model for an open innovation platform especially geared to the mobile phone sector in developing countries. Open innovation has in many cases proven to be a superior means to innovate, but in developing countries open innovation has so far...

Die Errichtung von Glasfaserinfrastrukturen erfordert von den ausbauenden Unternehmen hohe Investitionen. In jüngster Zeit ist vermehrt zu beobachten, dass in diesem Geschäftsfeld Akteure auftreten, die sich auf den Aufbau und Betrieb der neuen Netze konzentrieren, ohne selbst Dienste an...

According to a strong and diversified theoretical framework, innovation is one of the usual suspects in defining differences in firm performance. Understanding the diversity that exists within the population of innovative firms is essential for developing appropriate innovation policies. Our...