| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 414 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Selected papers presented at the 14th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Seoul, South Korea, August 18-22, 2002. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- List of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Global Economy and Digital Society: An Introduction -- Part I : Global Economy and Digital Markets: Boom and Bust? -- Chapter 2. The Telecoms Boom and Bust, 1996-2002: Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Processing -- Chapter 3. The Emerging Cyclicality of the Telecom Industry -- Chapter 4. Rethinking the Role of E-Commerce in B2B and B2C Transactions: Complementing Location, Personal Interactions and Pre-existing Relations -- Part II: Global Economy and Digital Technology -- Chapter 5. OECD Growth Blocs and the Role of ICT -- Chapter 6. Information Technology, Efficiency, and Productivity Growth in the Japanese Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing Sectors -- Chapter 7. The Impact of Korean Telecommunications Sector on Regional Output and Input Trade: Country-Level Study in the Asia-Pacific Region -- Part III: Digital Goods: Theoretical Investigation -- Chapter 8. Price Dispersion in the Internet Marketplace: Are Service-premium Strategies Relevant? -- Chapter 9. Disclosure of Source Code to a Technologically Advanced Entrant -- Chapter 10. Weighing the Intangible: Towards a Theory-based Framework for Information Society Indices -- Part IV: ICT Market Evolution and the Digital Society -- Chapter 11. Applying the Principle of Modularity to the Internet QoS Service Model Design -- Chapter 12. Determinants of Customer Retention for Korean High-speed Internet Services -- Chapter 13. The Analysis of Broadband Demand Using Data on Willingness-to-pay -- Chapter 14. Drivers of Demand Growth for Mobile Telecommunications Services: Evidence from International Panel Data -- Part V: Policy Aspects of the Digital Society -- Chapter 15. Institutional Arrangements of Regional Regulatory Regimes: Telecommunications Regulation in the European Union and the Limits to Policy Convergence -- Chapter 16. Effects of Prices for Local Network Interconnection on Market Structure in the US -- Chapter 17. Rationalizing Interconnection Arrangements in Competitive Communications Markets -- Chapter 18. Interconnection Policy Regimes and Global Strategic Alliance Activity in the Telecom Industry -- Chapter 19. Convergence Phenomenon and New Service Development in the Telecommunications Industry -- Chapter 20. What the World Trade Center Attack has Shown us About our Communications Networks -- Chapter 21. Network Resilience and its Regulatory Inhibitors -- Author Information -- Bibliographical Information -- Author Coordinates -- Index -- Last Page. |
| Summary |
The effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on globalization, innovation, growth and productivity are immense. ICTs contribute to the globalization of production and capital markets by reducing the cost of information and communication. These technologies have certainly made it easier for multinationals and other companies to spread production facilities all over the world, to co-ordinate international marketing campaigns, and to ease collaboration in projects taking place on different continents. While the anti-globalization movement may claim otherwise, individuals and c. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Telecommunication policy -- Congresses.
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Telecommunication policy. |
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Telecommunication -- Technological innovations -- Congresses.
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Telecommunication -- Technological innovations. |
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Digital communications -- Congresses.
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Digital communications. |
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Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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Globalization -- Economic aspects. |
| Indexed Term |
Global economy |
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Digital society |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Bohlin, Erik, 1961-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: International Telecommunications Society. International Conference (14th : 2002 : Seoul, Korea). Global economy and digital society. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004 0444513353 9780444513359 (DLC) 2004048972 (OCoLC)55981503 |
| ISBN |
9780080547190 (electronic book) |
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0080547192 (electronic book) |
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0444513353 (Cloth) |
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9780444513359 |
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