Telecommunications and Socio-Economic Development

Section headings and selected chapters. Telecommunications and Development. Telecommunications infrastructure and invention, innovation, and diffusion process (S. Braman). Measuring the gains from Asia-Pacific trade in telecommunications (G. Madden, S.J. Savage). International Dimensions. Contested arenas in international telecommunications: towards and integral political perspective (R. Joseph, P. Drahos). Strategic alliances for the provision of new telecommunications services: a methodological approach to a European satellite system (B. Sapio, P. Bonazinga). Organisational Aspects. Explaining the use of inter-firm data networks for electronic transactions: the case of the pharmaceutical and advertising industries in France (L. Caby et al.). Telecommunications and market efficiency: the missing link (T. Newstead). Country Studies. From path-dependent processes of structural change to a diversity of market models in central European countries' telecommunications (H. Kontkiewicz-Chachulska, D. Phan). Liberalisation and privatisation: telecommunications reforms in Sri Lanka (S. Jayasuriya, M. Knight-John).