Cross-sector competition in the information and communications technology sectors (ICT sectors) constitutes a key strategic challenge for telecommunications companies. Due to increasing convergence, value creation is resulting in a greater degree of interaction. The diversification potential of telecommunications businesses is therefore changing with respect to associated ICT sectors, such as h...

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a nascent concept, promoted actively by the European Union and other policy makers around the world. Hitherto, this concept has been associated primarily with publicly funded activities but given the considerable proportion of research and innovation that is undertaken in the private sector, RRI will be rendered irrelevant unless it is adopted by ind...

The construction sector is under growing pressure to increase productivity and improve quality, most notably in reports by Latham (1994) and Egan (1998). A major problem for construction companies is the lack of project predictability. One method of increasing predictability and delivering increased customer value is through the systematic management of construction processes. However, the indu...

The inter-relationship between agriculture and industry has been a long debated issue in most of the developing countries. In the Indian context, the issue has acquired interest since the industrial stagnation of the mid 1960s. Over the years the Indian economy has undergone a structural change in its sectoral composition: from a primary agro-based economy during 1970s, the economy has emerged ...

The software industry has existed since the mid-1950s, but until about 1970 very little attention was paid to it, largely because the industry was too small to merit detailed analysis other than as an unquantified sector of the overall computer business. As late as 1970, the annual turnover of all U.S. software firms was less than $1/2 billion – about 3.7 percent per cent of the total computer ...

the iranian banking sector has undergone huge and substantial reform in the last decade; privatization, establishment of private banks and development of modern technologies (it). this paper investigates the competitive condition of the iranian banking industry over the period 2005-2010 using the h-statistic proposed by panzar and rosse. the properties of this non-structural methodology make it...

Over the past 40 years or so the Indian pharmaceutical sector witnessed rapid growth and transformation. From a mere volume of just Rs. 10 core in 1947, the industry registered a sales turnover of about US $ 5.5 billion in 2004 with an annual growth rate of about 17%. The flexible provisions of the Patent Act of 1970 and other supportive policies of the Government of India played an instrumenta...