Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52177 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
22nd European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS): "Innovative ICT Applications - Emerging Regulatory, Economic and Policy Issues", Budapest, Hungary, 18th-21st September, 2011
Publisher: 
International Telecommunications Society (ITS), Calgary
Abstract: 
The value chain of the telecommunication industry is subject to a continuing disintegration which is caused by outsourced network operation, the provisioning of wholesale interfaces to competing service providers and the cooperative provisioning of broadband access. Thus, many companies regard cooperation as an element of cooperate strategy. In this paper we propose a cooperation topology for the telecommunication industry and identify drivers of cooperation based on the assessment of case studies. The results indicate that drivers of cooperation differ with respect to the cooperation direction and that the combination of complementary resources is the dominating driver of cooperation.
Subjects: 
Cooperation
telecommunication
typology of cooperation strategies
transaction costs
JEL: 
B40
A10
D80
O33
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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