Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries: A Multidisciplinary Approach

By Mirjam Kars, Ernst ten Heuvelhof, Martin de Jong, et al.

This in-depth book explains how institutional changes such as the privatization and liberalization of network industries, for example transport, energy or telecommunications, can frequently be disappointing. The expected benefits such as lower prices, innovation and better services fail to materialize, often because the number of competitors is low. The authors demonstrate how strategic actor behaviour of one or more of the firms involved can help explain these disappointing results.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847206107
• ISBN13: 9781847206107
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages