Research and development (R&D) capabilities generally enable firms to export more. Left underexplored is the question: Does the positive relationship between R&D and exports hold during institutional transitions, which are fundamental and comprehensive changes introduced to the rules of the...

This article evaluates the impact of the introduction of incentive regulation on technology deployment, as evaluated using two technology deployment metrics, among the population of local exchange carriers in the USA between 1988 and 2001. The regulatory schemes are disaggregated into five...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has opened hitherto closed markets to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs). While a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report on local competition documents vigorous entry during the past years, the market share of the entrants is...

This article examines patterns of decline in the public ownership of the corporate sector in Indian industry over a twenty five year period, 1973-74 to 1997-98, to assess whether a transformation in ownership has taken place and whether the boundaries of the state as a participant in industry...

Economics has traditionally split consumers from producers by assigning them fixed roles. In the Internetworked economy as it is becoming, this is no longer true as value is increasingly jointly created among individuals, as a function of their co-creation experiences. We construct a framework...

We are now in a new age of stakeholder engagement. Thanks to the World Wide Web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, networked individuals around the globe are no longer passive and docile recipients of dispensed instructions and...