Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach
This in-depth book explains how institutional changes such as the privatization and liberalization of network industries, for example transport, energy or telecommunications, can frequently be disappointing. The expected benefits such as lower prices, innovation and better services fail to materialize, often because the number of competitors is low. The authors demonstrate how strategic actor behaviour of one or more of the firms involved can help explain these disappointing results.

This book elucidates the concept of 'strategic behaviour' and portrays it in real-life examples to aid our understanding of this important phenomenon in terms of policy and organizational decision-making. It clearly demonstrates the adverse effects strategic behaviour can exert on the quality of infrastructure provision after liberalization. The theoretical sections are backed by empirical examples from throughout the world.

The unique multidisciplinary approach will ensure a broad readership among students, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in the economics, politics and management of infrastructure and network industries.

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Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach
This in-depth book explains how institutional changes such as the privatization and liberalization of network industries, for example transport, energy or telecommunications, can frequently be disappointing. The expected benefits such as lower prices, innovation and better services fail to materialize, often because the number of competitors is low. The authors demonstrate how strategic actor behaviour of one or more of the firms involved can help explain these disappointing results.

This book elucidates the concept of 'strategic behaviour' and portrays it in real-life examples to aid our understanding of this important phenomenon in terms of policy and organizational decision-making. It clearly demonstrates the adverse effects strategic behaviour can exert on the quality of infrastructure provision after liberalization. The theoretical sections are backed by empirical examples from throughout the world.

The unique multidisciplinary approach will ensure a broad readership among students, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in the economics, politics and management of infrastructure and network industries.

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Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Overview

This in-depth book explains how institutional changes such as the privatization and liberalization of network industries, for example transport, energy or telecommunications, can frequently be disappointing. The expected benefits such as lower prices, innovation and better services fail to materialize, often because the number of competitors is low. The authors demonstrate how strategic actor behaviour of one or more of the firms involved can help explain these disappointing results.

This book elucidates the concept of 'strategic behaviour' and portrays it in real-life examples to aid our understanding of this important phenomenon in terms of policy and organizational decision-making. It clearly demonstrates the adverse effects strategic behaviour can exert on the quality of infrastructure provision after liberalization. The theoretical sections are backed by empirical examples from throughout the world.

The unique multidisciplinary approach will ensure a broad readership among students, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in the economics, politics and management of infrastructure and network industries.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781847206107
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date: 09/30/2009
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ernst ten Heuvelhof, Delft University of Technology, Martin de Jong, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kars, Gemeente Roosendaal and Helen Stout, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Defining Strategic Behaviour 3. General Breeding Grounds for Strategic Behaviour 4. Recent Trends in Infrastructure-based Sectors 5. The EU–US 2007 Open Skies Treaty 6. Enron by Mark de Bruijne 7. American Telephone and Telegraph Company 8. UMTS Spectrum Auctions in the EU 9. Microsoft 10. Analysis 11. Counterarrangements Index
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