Since the first commercial launch of cellular telecoms by NET in Tokyo Japan in 1979 and the launch of the NMT system in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1981, the mobile phone has undergone continual incremental innovation for changing market needs. This study investigates the factors...

A Methodology for on-line case discussion : an experiment in an Executive MBA program

With Internet being used by companies, the concept of virtual company is commonly used to describe the fact that companies rely more and more on IT. The main issue of this paper is to assess the effecti- veness of this concept by an empirical study of 357 french companies. We attempt to...

Mobile phones have taken on the role of providing truly portable and individual communications and computing. Unlike many devices, however, mobile phones can be used anywhere and anytime. Consequently, they are used in social situations such as restaurants and theatres where co-located people...

Based on a literature review, this article draws a conceptual framework about the different uses of IT to control networks of firms. Four ways of using IT are discussed and compared. Rather than opposing one another, they are usually part of a pool of control mechanisms with which they interact...