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The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between the corporate governance (CG) environment, governance behavior and governance performance and place it into the…
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The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between the corporate governance (CG) environment, governance behavior and governance performance and place it into the research of the evolution and revolution of the Chinese telecommunication industry, a complex economic system.
Design/methodology/approach
On the basis of information about the Chinese telecommunication industry from 1949 to 2009 and China Mobile from 1997 to 2007, the authors analyze the Chinese telecommunication industry from two levels, namely industry level and firm level, with the combination of a critical incident method and time series method.
Findings
The results demonstrate that the evolution of the Chinese CG environment and governance behavior presents characteristics of punctuated equilibrium; governance behavior lags behind governance environment and it can cause the governance environment to evolve to benefit its development through exerting active effects; governance environment and governance performance strongly relate to and have an effect on each other; and the improvement of governance structure and mechanisms, together with the enhancement of strategic capability, can greatly contribute to the governance performance of firms.
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This paper has divided the development of the Chinese telecommunication industry into four stages, revealing the relationship between governance environment, governance behavior and governance performance with a case study of the Chinese telecommunication industry and China Mobile.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the intersection of formality, informality, structures of power, gender, and social norms in the mobile telecommunication industry in…
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the intersection of formality, informality, structures of power, gender, and social norms in the mobile telecommunication industry in Cameroon, and to investigate the reasons for the over-representation of informal self-employed women at the base of the mobile telecommunication industry in the country.
Design/methodology/approach
This is a qualitative study using interviews and observations.
Findings
Cameroon’s mobile telecommunication industry is a “spaghetti bowl” where formality, informality, gender, structures of power, and social norms are intertwined. In Cameroon’s mobile telecommunication industry, there is no static division between formality and informality, rather, there is a connection between formality and informality to ensure the unity and totality of the airtime credit distribution system. Self-employment in the mobile telecommunication industry is gendered.
Originality/value
Analysing the intersection of gender, class, formality, informality, social norms, and structures of power in the functioning of the mobile telecommunication industry in the Cameroon is original.
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The main objectives of the paper are: to analyse marketing orientation application specifics in mobile telecommunication enterprises; and to develop and test an instrument for…
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The main objectives of the paper are: to analyse marketing orientation application specifics in mobile telecommunication enterprises; and to develop and test an instrument for measuring the level of marketing orientation in the enterprises of the mobile telecommunication industry.
Design/methodology/approach
The marketing orientation instrument was derived from systematic comparative analysis of the relevant marketing literature, supplemented by additional criteria relating to innovation and organizational learning. The empirical research method was expert assessment, conducted by means of online questionnaires. Correlation analysis and comparison with data from secondary sources were employed to test the validity of the procedure.
Findings
The empirical research findings confirmed positive relationships between marketing orientation, enterprise performance and learning orientation in the target industry, but not between marketing orientation and innovativeness.
Research limitations/implications
The paper reports a field study of marketing orientation in the mobile telecommunications industry in the 15 countries of the pre‐2004 European Union. After acceptance of the new members into the EU there is a need to investigate the marketing orientation of the mobile communication operators in the newly accepted EU countries.
Practical implications
The proposed marketing orientation instrument can be used to solve the issues of marketing orientation development. An enterprise is expected to achieve better performance results by improving operations related to each criterion of the measuring instrument, under conditions of constant monitoring and learning.
Originality/value
The proposed marketing orientation development instrument is supplemented with additional innovation and organizational learning criteria. The first empirical marketing orientation research was performed for mobile telecommunication enterprises in the EU and confirmed positive relations between the marketing orientation level and the performance results of the EU mobile telecommunication operators. This research presents the empirical evidence that marketing orientation positively correlates with the constant organization learning.
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Vai Shiem Leong, Diyana Maslina Hj Ahady and Nazlida Muhamad
This study aims to examine the extent of corporate image of mobile telecommunication company on service quality and price fairness, which subsequently play important roles in…
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This study aims to examine the extent of corporate image of mobile telecommunication company on service quality and price fairness, which subsequently play important roles in influencing customer satisfaction and loyalty.
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A questionnaire was administered to subscribers of mobile service providers in Brunei. The proposed research model was tested using structural equation modeling to estimate the relationships between corporate image, service quality, price fairness, customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Findings
The results indicated that favorable corporate image positively affects network quality, customer support and price fairness, which, in turn, lead to formation of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.
Originality/value
This study demonstrates the magnitude of corporate image as an enabler of market dominance, recognizing that superior corporate image can become a first mover advantage and competitive advantage, which explains the high customer retention of a mobile telecommunication company. The effects of corporate image as a first mover advantage have not been highlighted in the literature of first mover advantage of mobile telecommunication; therefore, this study provides a new insight in this study area.
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This paper attempts to investigate the simultaneous effects of dedication and constraint factors on business-to-business (B2B) customer loyalty in the context of transforming the…
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This paper attempts to investigate the simultaneous effects of dedication and constraint factors on business-to-business (B2B) customer loyalty in the context of transforming the mobile telecommunication industry. Maintaining a successful inter-organizational relationship with the key players becomes increasingly critical to the performance and competitiveness of the mobile network operator (MNO) in the mobile telecommunication industry.
Design/methodology/approach
A dual customer loyalty model which reflected both dedication-based and constraint-based mechanisms is developed and empirically tested against data collected from 129 content providers (CPs) which currently have business relationships with China Mobile.
Findings
The structural equation modeling partial least squares analysis indicates that dedication-based (e.g. customer satisfaction, trust in MNO and MNO’s relationship-specific investments) and constraint-based (e.g. switching costs, dependence on MNO and CP’s asset specificity) mechanisms simultaneously, yet differentially, influence CP’s loyalty toward the MNO.
Practical implications
To obtain CP’s loyalty, MNOs should consider both the dedication and constraint factors. In particular, they need to focus more on the constraint-based mechanism, as it exerts stronger influences on CP’s loyalty than the dedication-based mechanism.
Originality/value
This research advances our theoretical understanding of the dual nature of customer loyalty behavior in the B2B context and offers practical implications for MNOs to leverage these two contrasting causal drivers.
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The strategic management literature emphasizes the concept of business intelligence (BI) as an essential competitive tool. Yet the sustainability of the firms’ competitive…
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The strategic management literature emphasizes the concept of business intelligence (BI) as an essential competitive tool. Yet the sustainability of the firms’ competitive advantage provided by BI capability is not well researched. To fill this gap, this study attempts to develop a model for successful BI deployment and empirically examines the association between BI deployment and sustainable competitive advantage. Taking the telecommunications industry in Malaysia as a case example, the research particularly focuses on the influencing perceptions held by telecommunications decision makers and executives on factors that impact successful BI deployment. The research further investigates the relationship between successful BI deployment and sustainable competitive advantage of the telecommunications organizations. Another important aim of this study is to determine the effect of moderating factors such as organization culture, business strategy, and use of BI tools on BI deployment and the sustainability of firm’s competitive advantage.
This research uses combination of resource-based theory and diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory to examine BI success and its relationship with firm’s sustainability. The research adopts the positivist paradigm and a two-phase sequential mixed method consisting of qualitative and quantitative approaches are employed. A tentative research model is developed first based on extensive literature review. The chapter presents a qualitative field study to fine tune the initial research model. Findings from the qualitative method are also used to develop measures and instruments for the next phase of quantitative method. The study includes a survey study with sample of business analysts and decision makers in telecommunications firms and is analyzed by partial least square-based structural equation modeling.
The findings reveal that some internal resources of the organizations such as BI governance and the perceptions of BI’s characteristics influence the successful deployment of BI. Organizations that practice good BI governance with strong moral and financial support from upper management have an opportunity to realize the dream of having successful BI initiatives in place. The scope of BI governance includes providing sufficient support and commitment in BI funding and implementation, laying out proper BI infrastructure and staffing and establishing a corporate-wide policy and procedures regarding BI. The perceptions about the characteristics of BI such as its relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, and observability are also significant in ensuring BI success. The most important results of this study indicated that with BI successfully deployed, executives would use the knowledge provided for their necessary actions in sustaining the organizations’ competitive advantage in terms of economics, social, and environmental issues.
This study contributes significantly to the existing literature that will assist future BI researchers especially in achieving sustainable competitive advantage. In particular, the model will help practitioners to consider the resources that they are likely to consider when deploying BI. Finally, the applications of this study can be extended through further adaptation in other industries and various geographic contexts.
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Collins Kankam-Kwarteng, George Nana Agyekum Donkor and Solomon Kwarteng Forkuoh
The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and marketing capability on consumer behavioral responses in the mobile…
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The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and marketing capability on consumer behavioral responses in the mobile telecommunication industry in Ghana. Particularly, the study estimated the moderating effect of marketing capability on the relationship between CSR and consumer behavioral responses.
Design/methodology/approach
Both customers and employees of three major mobile telecommunication companies were sampled for this work. A mixed linear regression technique was used to examine the relationship between corporate responsibility, marketing capability and customer behavioral responses.
Findings
The empirical results revealed that marketing capabilities moderate the relationship between CSR and consumer responses in the telecommunication industry.
Research limitations/implications
The study proposes practical dimensions to the mobile telecommunication companies that the extensive development of strong marketing capabilities serves a conduit for CSR to achieve favorable consumer responses.
Originality/value
The results have opened up rather a limitation studies on the moderation role marketing capabilities in relationship between CSR and consumer behavioral responses in the telecommunication industry.
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Jason Whalley and Peter Curwen
The purpose of this paper to analyse Hutchison Whampoa's involvement in the telecommunication industry.
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The purpose of this paper to analyse Hutchison Whampoa's involvement in the telecommunication industry.
Design/methodology/approach
A brief overview of Hutchison Whampoa is provided before a timeline of the company's involvement in the telecommunications industry is presented. This is followed by the recounting of the company's performance in three areas, namely geographical footprint, mobile subscribers and financial returns. After discussing these three areas, an assessment of the company's exposure to 3G markets is made.
Findings
One finding is that Hutchison Whampoa has actively engaged in the telecommunications industry through buying and selling businesses, often through complex organisational structures. A second finding is that the company has been very successful in the past at building and selling mobile operations, though it is unlikely to be as successful with its current series of 3G investments.
Research limitations/implications
Some of the data used in the paper are hard to establish with certainty.
Practical implications
The ownership of service providers and the services available may change as Hutchison Whampoa manages its portfolio of telecommunication investments.
Social implications
As a late entrant in many markets, Hutchison Whampoa has aggressively sought to capture market share, resulting in new services and lower prices. Whether this will continue in the future is uncertain.
Originality/value
There are no other case studies of Hutchison Whampoa's involvement in the telecommunications industry in the public domain.
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Abhay Kumar Bhadani, Ravi Shankar and D. Vijay Rao
The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing investment decisions in mobile services for profitablity and to become a global leader in mobile services sector…
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The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing investment decisions in mobile services for profitablity and to become a global leader in mobile services sector.
Design/methodology/approach
A two-stage methodology is followed. In the first stage, factors are identified from literature, and are validated with telecommunication domain experts using the t-test. In the second stage, interpretive structural modeling (ISM) is used to understand the complex interrelationships among various factors. Further, MICMAC analysis is performed to analyze the indirect relationships and their effect on different factors by stabilizing the rank based on driving and dependence power. Based on MICMAC analysis, four clusters are identified to aid the policy- and decision-makers.
Findings
The major contribution of this research is imposing directions and dominance of various factors to make informed decision-making for investment in mobile services to meet the upcoming demand for mobile services in Indian telecommunication sector.
Research limitations/implications
The applicability of these research findings is limited to emerging telecommunication market.
Practical implications
This paper forms the basis for identifying various factors that act as the driving force for the Indian telecommunication operators to pay special attention toward mobile services, with telecommunication data analytics and developing context-aware services. This paper will aid policy-makers in the government, managers in telecommunication companies and other stakeholders such as content providers, channel partners and application developers to take a lead role in developing appropriate mobile services to meet local needs of Indian users. It will help in developing strategies to collaborate and motivate other stakeholders, including device manufacturers to understand and work collaboratively to become world leader in mobile services.
Originality/value
This paper provides a framework for understanding the various factors that encourage telecommunication companies to establish and invest in mobile services and setup a separate vertical in their organization with a focus on mobile services to meet the future demands of Indian market. Appropriate utilization of telecommunication data analytics, personalization of services, customization in local languages and support for convergent services would encourage adoption of mobile services.
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Eric Yeboah-Asiamah, Daniel M. Quaye and Simon Gyasi Nimako
The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between lucky draw sales promotion (LDSP) and the four phases of brand loyalty in the telecommunication…
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between lucky draw sales promotion (LDSP) and the four phases of brand loyalty in the telecommunication industry.
Design/methodology/approach
A self-administered structure questionnaire was used to collect primary data from conveniently sampled 338 lucky draw winners in the Ghanaian telecommunication industry. A response rate of 67.1 percent was obtained for data analysis using structural equation modeling approach.
Findings
It was found that LDSP positively relate to cognitive brand loyalty, and to behavioral brand loyalty through affective and conative brand loyalty. All hypothesized relationships among the sequential four-stage loyalty were confirmed, except the direct relationship between LDSP and behavioral brand loyalty.
Research limitations/implications
The findings are limited to lucky draw winners in the telecommunication industry.
Practical implications
Marketers can increase brand loyalty and profit more from their customers through targeted programs with hedonic benefits to build strong commitment level (conative brand loyalty), strong favoritism (affective brand loyalty) and strong beliefs about the superiority (cognitive brand loyalty) of a brand.
Originality/value
Theoretically, this study fills the void of empirical studies on non-price sales promotion techniques of lucky draw and customer brand loyalty in the telecommunication sector in developing economy context, and contributes to the body of knowledge in the area of customer brand loyalty and LDSP.
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