Front Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Opening Telecom Markets: The 1996 Telecommunications Act -- Chapter 3. The First Eight Years under the New Law -- Chapter 4. Local Competition under the 1996 Act -- Chapter 5. Effect of...

Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two...

Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- I. Preface -- II. Introduction -- III. Steering Committee Policy Recommendations and Findings* -- IV. NRC Summary Report on the Project -- Sources of Friction and Cooperation in High-Technology Industries -- System Integration and System Friction: New...