The wireless telephone industry has seen dramatic changes. In the United States, for example, cellular demand continues to increase with high annual growth rates. In order to help meet this demand and to promote competition in the duopolistic wireless telephone industry, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supplemented the existing cellular industry capacity by auctioning spectrum for p...

Using a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) dataset, this paper demonstrates firms are strategic in the regulatory cases they bring to court. They are increasingly likely to bring cases as the ideological distance between the FCC and the Court increases. Judges then vote ideologically as the firms’ actions predict they will.

This article develops a strategic clustering for Mobile Middleware Technology Providers (MMTPs), shedding light on the business models and the strategic positioning currently adopted by this actor typology. The paper combines a literature review and a multiple case study approach – 24 in‐depth cases based on 72 semi‐ structured interviews were performed – to ...

background: academic medicine is in a state of dramatic transformation. for this reason strategic thinking is the most essential part of educational planning. the main purpose of the present study was developing the strategic educational planning of ophthalmology in iran from 2007 to 2010 methods: a qualitative investigation using focus group discussion has been implemented successfully for dev...

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