Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures examines how current telecom infrastructures are transforming from dedicated networks supporting either voice, data or broadcasting services to converged networks that support a wide variety of communication services, often denoted as Next Generation...

In his 2004 presidential address to the American Sociological Association, Michael Burawoy called for the creation of a public sociology that would be more relevant and useful to the people whom we study and with whom we work. This vision represents one of many responses to the growing chorus of...

Due to the rise in web-based communication, such as e-mail and declining surface mail volume over the past decade, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been forced to reconsider its universal service obligation (USO). The USO ensures that all American citizens, regardless of geographic...

Recent advancements in the theory of entrepreneurship include a range of discussions about the dynamic interactions of entrepreneurs and the nature and perception of entrepreneurial opportunity. To substantively capture both of these theoretical strains, we revisit and extend a conceptual...

Recent advancements in the theory of entrepreneurship include a range of discussions about the dynamic interactions of entrepreneurs and the nature and perception of entrepreneurial opportunity. To substantively capture both of these theoretical strains, we revisit and extend a conceptual...

Purpose – Relational aspects between actors in a chain have been found to influence innovation capacity. Yet, many studies focus rather on groups of chain members, without investigating personalized links between the chain members. Other research involved case‐studies on a limited number of...