Explicating barriers to entry in the telecommunications industry

Park, Eun‐A

doi:10.1108/14636690910932984

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“…Earlier studies show that new firms pose a competition to the existing one, but simultaneously they help the existing firms to develop and execute strong strategies to become more competitive (Sayed and Paulo, 2013). Firms can adopt or target economies of scale, refining the contracts or influence the market conditions to remain competitive (Park, 2009).…”

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Identification and evaluation of determinants of competitiveness in the Indian auto-component industry

Tambade¹,

Singh

Modgil

2019

BIJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify dimensions of competitiveness, factors affecting the competitiveness and building the framework of competitiveness for the Indian auto-component industry and further develop and validate a survey instrument based on the identified factors. Design/methodology/approach Dimensions of competitiveness and factors affecting it are extracted out after extensive literature review. A theoretical framework is developed using these factors. A survey instrument is developed based on the theoretical framework and validated through a pilot survey. Findings In total, 30 variables are found to be reliable in establishing the potential indicators of competitiveness. There are three significant contributions to the theory of competitiveness. It provides a theoretical framework of competitiveness to address the current market conditions of volatility. Second, it incorporates the dimensions like supply chain management, presence of global value chains and employee empowerment. Third, it clearly identifies the dimensions of competitiveness relevant in current context, like ethical behavior of firms, protection of intellectual property and innovation. Practical implications The proposed approach provides a good basis for assessing the competitive performance of the companies. This can help researchers and practitioners in deciding how to improve the competitiveness of a company. Originality/value The research proposes a theoretical framework for measuring the competitiveness of firms from a specific industry. This study indicates the factors affecting the competitiveness of Indian auto-component industry. The findings can be useful for both researchers and practitioners.

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Identification and evaluation of determinants of competitiveness in the Indian auto-component industry

Tambade¹,

Singh

Modgil

2019

BIJ

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“…Context-aware mobile services, reasons for poor adoption and the business models were studied among Finnish users (Reuver and Haaker, 2009). Entry barriers and concerns for a new telecom operator in a new market were studied in (Park, 2009). M-Banking service offerings were studied to understand the adoption among the young customers (Koenig-Lewis et al, 2010).…”

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Modeling the barriers of service adoption in rural Indian telecom using integrated ISM-ANP

Bhadani

Shankar

Rao

2016

Journal of Modelling in Management

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Purpose – This paper aims to understand and identify the various barriers in adopting new telecom services in rural areas for improving the penetration and revenue of the telecom companies. These barriers are modeled to study their inter-relationships and prioritize them for strategizing appropriate management action plans. Design/methodology/approach – Delphi technique has been used to form a consensus with the telecom managers working in rural areas to finalize the barriers. An integrated Interpretive Structural Modeling–Analytic Network Process (ISM–ANP) approach has been adopted to establish the complex relationships, cluster the relationships, to understand and prioritize the telecom service adoption barriers. Findings – The major contribution of this research is imposing directions and dominance of various barriers to promote better adoption of new telecom-based mobile services in rural areas. The proposed integrated method can aid in decision making by providing more informative, accurate and a better choice than using either ISM or ANP in isolation. Research limitations/implications – The generalizabilty of these research findings is limited, as it was generated specific to rural telecom service adoption barriers in Indian context. Because decision-making problems are usually complex and ill-structured, every decision is based on the decision-maker’s expertise, preferences and biasness of the experts who showed their interest to participate in the research. Practical implications – This paper forms the basis of identifying the reasons for poor adoption of telecom-based mobile services in rural India. This study would help the telecom companies and the managers to understand and develop strategies to target the rural audience by introducing action plans and innovative mobile services to overcome the identified barriers. By applying the proposed methodology, telecom companies can classify and prioritize their action plans as short-, medium- and long-term plans to systematically overcome the identified barriers. Originality/value – This paper provides a base for understanding various factors that affect the adoption of telecom-based mobile services. It demonstrates the use of an innovative approach to develop an integrated model to understand the barriers.

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“…Some research studies have looked at barrier issues in tourism and other retailing businesses (Clark & White, 2009;Han, Back, & Kim, 2011;Han, Kim, & Hyun, 2011;Karakaya, 2002;Lee, Agarwal, & Kim, 2012;McAfee, Mialon, & Williams, 2004;Mottiar & Tucker, 2007;Park, 2009;Pehrsson, 2009;Skipper, 1987;Zimmerman, 1999). However, there is a lack of research that explores related issues in the travel agency industry.…”

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Building a barrier-to-imitation strategy model in the travel agency industry

Huang

2013

Current Issues in Tourism

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This study explores travel agency industry-specific barriers to imitation by first reviewing the literature on the barriers to imitation and the effects of barrier reductions on travel markets. This is the first attempt to explore and identify the external and internal barriers to imitation in the travel agency industry. It is also the first to examine the development of competitive advantages through the building of a barrier-to-imitation strategy, which is the conceptual model from the perspective of travel agency practitioners. A three-round Delphi research design was adopted to look into the present barrier-to-imitation strategy performance measures of travel agencies. Qualitative interviews with the chief executive officers of the top 15 large-scale travel agencies provided additional insights. The results show that Taiwanese travel agencies consider five external barriers, six internal barriers, and six developing barriers-to-imitation advantages, and four performance indicators of barrier strategies. This study is quite innovative in that no one else so far has analysed or tried to discern the issues of barriers to imitation, towards proposing an optimal strategic model for enforcing barriers to imitation. Finally, the construct of developing competitive advantages by building a barrier strategies model for travel agencies can help address practical and theoretical needs.

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Explicating barriers to entry in the telecommunications industry

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Identification and evaluation of determinants of competitiveness in the Indian auto-component industry

Identification and evaluation of determinants of competitiveness in the Indian auto-component industry

Modeling the barriers of service adoption in rural Indian telecom using integrated ISM-ANP

Building a barrier-to-imitation strategy model in the travel agency industry

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