Although mobile network operators (MNOs) carried out numerous international expansion moves over the past 25 years industry-specific empirical research on shareholder reactions to such moves and on factors explaining differences of the wealth effects of international expansion moves is scarce....

A review of 356 publications addressing internationalisation aspects of the telecommunications services industry (TSI) shows a growing body of contributions, mainly covering research themes like settlement and regulation policy, strategic alliances and incumbents' reactions to deregulation as...

Specific internationalization steps of single mobile network operators (MNO) such as the hostile takeover of the German Mannesmann corporation by the British Vodafone group have received substantial public attention. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of scholarly research using quantitative...

Ökonomische Besonderheiten der Märkte für Mobilfunkdienste -- Konzeptioneller und empirischer Forschungsstand sowie eigene Untersuchungshypothesen/-fragen -- Jahresabschlussbezogene empirische Analyse von Einflussfaktoren des Internationalisierungserfolgs von Mobilfunknetzbetreibern --...

In diesem Lehrbuch wird zunächst in kompakter Form die Besonderheiten von Dienstleistungen vorgestellt und im Anschluss daran die zentralen Einflussfaktoren auf die Produktion und Konsumption von Dienstleistungen diskutiert. Im Zentrum des Buches steht die Vorstellung der Marketingkonzeption...

Purpose: We challenge the discontinuity (also called incompatibility) hypothesis of generalized and particularistic trust, suggesting that the two types of trust are incompatible. This view is problematic because if so, it remains unclear, for instance, how communities scoring high in...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand how employees of an organization build and maintain successful business relationships by analyzing major antecedents of relationship quality and relationship commitment. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, the authors develop a...

Purpose – One of the key drivers of competitiveness and growth of emerging countries is their ability to innovate. While India has successfully implemented innovative processes for software development, many Western nations have led in new product designs. The purpose of this paper is to...