• The disintegration of network externalities industries : the computer and the telecommunications equipment industries 

      Ulset, Svein (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      This paper explains from a transaction cost economics approach disintegration of network industries whose externalities depend on seamless interaction between its constituent components. I simple two-period model is developed ...
    • Internasjonalisering av telesektoren : generelle lærdommer og spesielle utfordringer for Telenor 

      Ulset, Svein; Gooderham, Paul N. (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2000-04)
      Notatet beskriver og analyserer strategiske og organisasjonsmessig utfordringer i forbindelse med internasjonalisering av teleselskap generelt og Telenor spesielt. Siden internasjonalisering av telesektoren er av nyere ...
    • Knowledge transfer between parent and developing country subsidiaries : a conceptual framework 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Ulset, Svein (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-03)
      The aim of this working-paper is to summarise the literature on knowledge transfer with particular focus on transfer to low-knowledge subsidiaries in developing country settings. We do this without reference to TMC or to ...
    • The rise and fall of global network alliances : success or failure? 

      Ulset, Svein (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      The purpose of this article is to examine and explain the changing use of different modes of organizing global telecom networks that provide global telecom services to multinational business customers. In this market, ...
    • The turn-around of Uninor 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Ulset, Svein (Working paper;06/13, Working paper, 2013-01)
      On October 29, 2008, Telenor of Norway announced its plans to enter the Indian mobile telecom market. Despite a strong start, revenue did not grow in line with business projections. In a highly congested market, price war ...
    • Virtual network operation : strategy, structure and profitability 

      Ulset, Svein (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-04)
      This report describes and analyzes critical conditions for achieving net benefit from opening the value-chain in telecom by introducing virtual network operators (VNOs). These are facility-less operators that outsource ...
    • Why local loop unbundling fails? 

      Spiller, Pablo T.; Ulset, Svein (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-12)
      The paper examines why local loop unbundling (LLU) mostly fails. Unbundling, in principle, makes the local loop (subscriber line) available to competing operators and enables the development of complementary network devices ...