How valuable is a piece of the spectrum? Determination of value in external resource acquisition

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-333

  Ansari, Shahzad ^a   Munir, Kamal ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 41249093240     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtn004     Document Type: Article

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