scholarly journals Competition In The Canadian Telecommunications Industry: Past, Present And Potential Ways Forward

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Hudes
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Telecommunications Act ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
Regulatory Decisions ◽  
Policy Mechanisms

<div>Undoubtedly, the Canadian telecommunications industry is at a critical juncture with respect to competition. Telecommunications services are becoming increasingly essential for Canadian citizens to effectively participate in the economy, democracy and society more broadly. As such, it is critical to explore the various policy mechanisms that can deliver all Canadians an affordable and high quality experience as mandated in section seven of the Telecommunications Act. The study focuses on potential ways to cultivate a meaningfully competitive telecommunications environment that can better represent public interest. Drawing on a litany of international and domestic regulatory decisions, both past and present, in conjunction with academic journals, Candian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) regulatory proceedings and contemporary news articles, the paper demonstrates that the lack of meaningful competition in the Canadian telecommunications industry is limiting positive outcomes for Canadian citizens in regards to affordability, choice and coverage.</div>

scholarly journals Competition In The Canadian Telecommunications Industry: Past, Present And Potential Ways Forward

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Hudes
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Telecommunications Act ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
Regulatory Decisions ◽  
Policy Mechanisms

<div>Undoubtedly, the Canadian telecommunications industry is at a critical juncture with respect to competition. Telecommunications services are becoming increasingly essential for Canadian citizens to effectively participate in the economy, democracy and society more broadly. As such, it is critical to explore the various policy mechanisms that can deliver all Canadians an affordable and high quality experience as mandated in section seven of the Telecommunications Act. The study focuses on potential ways to cultivate a meaningfully competitive telecommunications environment that can better represent public interest. Drawing on a litany of international and domestic regulatory decisions, both past and present, in conjunction with academic journals, Candian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) regulatory proceedings and contemporary news articles, the paper demonstrates that the lack of meaningful competition in the Canadian telecommunications industry is limiting positive outcomes for Canadian citizens in regards to affordability, choice and coverage.</div>

scholarly journals Some New Ideas on the Role of Legal Analysis applied to the Regulation of Telecommunications Services in Brazil

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-60
Author(s):  
Marcus Faro de Castro ◽  
Daniele Kleiner Fontes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Regulatory Law ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Purpose – The paper aims to present new ideas and analytical approaches developed in recent years by Brazilian legal scholars regarding regulation and economic development. Regulatory law of telecommunications services is taken as an example of application of such new ideas and analytical approaches. Methodology/approach/design – Two main approaches to the relationship between law and economic issues are described: the New Law and Development (NLD) approach and the Legal Analysis of Economic Policy (LAEP) perspective. The paper highlights prominent ideas of each perspective. Findings – The paper shows that there are structured ideas available in recent Brazilian legal literature which have a non-negligible potential of being explored in legal discussions and analyses of economic policy and regulatory issues of many sectors of emerging economies, including the telecommunications industry. Originality/value – The paper offers valuable contributions that may help in efforts to enhance and innovate the role of legal expertise in the regulatory process of several economic sectors, including the telecommunications sector.

scholarly journals The Public Choice View at the “Deregulation” Movement: Analyzing the Experience of European Telecommunications

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Dimitrii Trubnikov
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Open Market ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Corporations

Purpose – The liberalization of European telecommunications has been expressed in highly concentrated markets with several major players at the pan-European level. Instead of fostering competitive marketplaces, the reform has created an oligopolistic landscape with powerful private corporations. This induces reasonable questions about the real objectives and the chosen ways of the reform. Methodology/approach/design – The deregulatory movement in the telecommunications sector is analyzed through contrasting perspectives of the public interest approach and public choice theory. Findings – The chance to change the landscape of the industry has been missed, and the current trend towards the global oligopolistic marketplace yields an unprecedented amount of economic power to narrow groups at the global scale. The liberalization movement introduced market mechanisms in the industry, but the real free and open market has never been formed, and it is possible to assert that it has never been among the real objectives and intentions of the policymakers. Originality/value – The recent surge of “liberalization” in the telecommunications industry speaks rather in favor of the hypothesis of vested private interests in the policy and that they have always been greatly covered by the sauce of public interest justifications. The case of telecommunications shows that ideas and understanding of economic phenomena played an important role in adoption of regulatory regimes, and it is apparent that people on the top of the social pyramid have opportunities to pick up and foster those ideas that better fit their private needs.

The Global Telecommunications Industry Facing the IP Revolution

2010 ◽  
pp. 1117-1124
Author(s):  
Harald Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Market Power ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Internet Protocol ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Video Signals ◽  
Rapid Diffusion ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
Specific Regulation

Technological innovation in the telecommunications sector is a key contributor to the rapid diffusion of e-business. The steady drive towards semiconductor miniaturisation leads to a continuous decline in the price of telecommunications equipment and increase in performance. Technological change therefore continues to transform the way telecommunications services are provided and used. Telecommunication networks are subject to a technological switch from so called circuit switched technology to packet switched technology. In fact, digitalisation of audio and video signals has led to the convergence of telecommunications, data processing and broadcasting technologies into a single service platform based on Internet Protocol (IP). This has strong implications on legacy networks of existing operators, because they need to support during a transition period both technologies in the network, but this duplication is inefficient. This is more so as the incumbent telecommunications operators are subject to sector specific regulation. This regulation was motivated by the externalities that telecommunications generate and the concern that operators would exploit market power to the detriment of users. This appears to be less the case when there is a multiplicity of telecommunications networks.

scholarly journals Designing for Consistent Implementation of a 5th Grade Digital Math Curriculum

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Roschelle ◽  
Steven Gaudino ◽  
Samantha Darling
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Design Case ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
5Th Grade ◽  
Over Time

Reasoning Mind products are used by over 100,000 students a year and have shown positive outcomes. In this design case we focus on implementation: how Reasoning Mind’s approach evolved to tackle the challenge of achieving consistently high-quality implementations with many different schools, teachers, and students. Key insights include the definition of the Implementation Coordinator role and how that role is managed, the design and refinement of specific tools to support the implementation improvement process, and how Reasoning Mind’s understanding of its organizational values in relationship to its approach to implementation evolved over time. Based on a study in which 23 schools in West Virginia are newly adopting Reasoning Mind, we also reflect on how the design insights are playing out in a large-scale implementation.

scholarly journals How faculty define quality, prestige, and impact of academic journals

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0257340
Author(s):  
Esteban Morales ◽  
Erin C. McKiernan ◽  
Meredith T. Niles ◽  
Lesley Schimanski ◽  
Juan Pablo Alperin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The U.S

Despite the calls for change, there is significant consensus that when it comes to evaluating publications, review, promotion, and tenure processes should aim to reward research that is of high "quality," is published in "prestigious" journals, and has an "impact." Nevertheless, such terms are highly subjective and present challenges to ascertain precisely what such research looks like. Accordingly, this article responds to the question: how do faculty from universities in the United States and Canada define the terms quality, prestige, and impact of academic journals? We address this question by surveying 338 faculty members from 55 different institutions in the U.S. and Canada. While relying on self-reported definitions that are not linked to their behavior, this study’s findings highlight that faculty often describe these distinct terms in overlapping ways. Additionally, results show that marked variance in definitions across faculty does not correspond to demographic characteristics. This study’s results highlight the subjectivity of common research terms and the importance of implementing evaluation regimes that do not rely on ill-defined concepts and may be context specific.

scholarly journals Purpose in Life among First-Generation College Students: Friends Make a Difference

Youth ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Terese JeanLund ◽  
Belle Liang ◽  
Brenna Lincoln ◽  
Allison E. White ◽  
Angela M. DeSilva Mousseau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Purpose In Life ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
High Quality ◽  
First Generation College

Purpose in life is linked with numerous positive outcomes among adolescents and emerging adults. Peer relationships may play an important role in the cultivation of purpose, especially among first-generation college (FGC) students. The present study examined the association between the quality of peer relationships and commitment to purpose among students from three universities (N = 195). Analyses also examined whether FGC student status moderated this association. The results indicated that the quality of peer relationships significantly predicted commitment to purpose. FGC status moderated this association; high-quality relationships with peers helped close the gap in purpose commitment between FGC students and their counterparts.

scholarly journals The Quest for Citations: Drivers of Article Impact

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Stremersch ◽  
Isabel Verniers ◽  
Peter C. Verhoef
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Marketing Literature ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
Article Impact ◽  
Article Quality ◽  
Quality Article

Why do some articles become building blocks for future scholars, whereas others remain unnoticed? The authors aim to answer this question by contrasting, synthesizing, and simultaneously testing three scientometric perspectives—universalism, social constructivism, and presentation—on the influence of article and author characteristics on article citations. They study all articles published in a sample of five major journals in marketing from 1990 to 2002 that are central to the discipline. They count the number of citations each of these articles has received and regress this count on an extensive set of characteristics of the article (i.e., article quality, article domain, title length, the use of attention grabbers, and expositional clarity) and the author (i.e., author visibility and author personal promotion). They find that the number of citations an article in the marketing discipline receives depends more on “what is said” (quality and domain) and “who says it” (author visibility and personal promotion) than on “how it is said” (title length, the use of attention grabbers, and expositional clarity). The insights gleaned from this analysis contribute to the marketing literature and are relevant to scientific stakeholders, such as the management of scientific journals and individual academic scholars, as they strive to maximize citations. They are also relevant to marketing practitioners; they inform practitioners on characteristics of the academic journals in marketing and their relevance to decisions they face. Conversely, the insights also raise challenges regarding how to make journals accessible and relevant to marketing practitioners: (1) Authors visible to academics are not necessarily visible to practitioners; (2) the readability of an article may hurt academic credibility and impact, but it may be instrumental in influencing practitioners; and (3) it remains questionable whether articles that academics assess to be of high quality are also managerially relevant.

The State of Surveying Legislators: Dilemmas and Suggestions

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherie Maestas ◽  
Grant W. Neeley ◽  
Lilliard E. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
State Level ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Legislative Politics ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Data

State-level research affords scholars a unique opportunity to study legislative behavior because state legislators are accessible in ways that members of congress are not. State legislators' willingness to respond to interviews and questionnaires has provided scholars with a rich array of data about their behavior and perceptions. This survey research has contributed greatly to our theoretical and practical knowledge of legislative behavior and institutions. We examine 73 articles published in top academic journals from 1975 to 2000 to identify common techniques of surveying state legislators and suggest ways in which scholars can enhance the prospects for collecting high quality data. We also consider what type of collective efforts could be undertaken to enhance this underutilized resource for studying legislative politics.

THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN PRIVATE NUISANCE: COLLECTIVES AND COMMUNITIES IN TORT

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Lee
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Regulatory Decisions

AbstractThe relevance of public interests in private law is at the heart of some central divides in tort scholarship. This paper argues that public interests pervade private nuisance cases. The uncertain and contested nature of public interests, and the absence in both the case law and the scholarly literature of an abstract definition of what is to count as a public interest, do not prevent these matters from playing a significant role in tort. In these circumstances, it is important to reflect on how we might set about articulating the public interest. This paper argues that administrative decisions that are intended to serve the public interest can in some cases provide a defensible vision of public interest for the purposes of private law. An examination of the process by which regulatory decisions were reached can provide indicators to assist in identifying and evaluating the strength of claimed public interests.

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