Successful and unsuccessful radical transformation of multinational mobile telephony companies: the role of institutional context
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Elter, F., Gooderham, P. and Stensaker, I. 2021. Successful and unsuccessful radical transformation of multinational mobile telephony companies: the role of institutional context. in: Verbeke, A., van Tulder, R., Rose, E. and Wei, Y. (ed.) The Multiple Dimensions of Institutional Complexity in International Business Research Vol: 15 Emerald Publishing Limited.
Chapter title | Successful and unsuccessful radical transformation of multinational mobile telephony companies: the role of institutional context |
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Authors | Elter, F., Gooderham, P. and Stensaker, I. |
Abstract | A number of prominent European multinational mobile telephony companies (MNMTCs) have their origins in state-owned monopolies that successfully undertook radical transformation in the late 1980s to late 1990s. Not only did they face liberalization of their domestic markets but they also moved from fixed-line telephony to mobile telephony prior to rapid expanded overseas. Our study focuses on Telenor whose operations currently span the Nordic region and Southeast Asia. Like other MNMTCs, Telenor currently faces another period of radical change as global digital services providers are set to ride on the connectivity MNMTCs supply thereby reducing them to “dumb-pipes”. Our study indicates that Telenor has abandoned radical transformation for “modernization” of its extant operations. For an understanding of why this second radical change is proving arduous for MNMTCs, we argue that there is a need to take into consideration institutional change. |
Book title | The Multiple Dimensions of Institutional Complexity in International Business Research Vol: 15 |
Editors | Verbeke, A., van Tulder, R., Rose, E. and Wei, Y. |
Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited |
Series | Progress in International Business Research |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781800432451 |
Electronic | 9781800432444 |
Electronic | 9781800432468 |
Publication dates | |
04 Mar 2021 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 14 May 2020 |
Accepted | 05 May 2020 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | © Emerald Publishing Limited . This AAM is provided for your own personal use only. It may not be used for resale, reprinting, systematic distribution, emailing, or for any other commercial purpose without the permission of the publisher'. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1108/S1745-886220210000015019 |
Language | English |
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