The Blurring of Industry Boundaries: an Explanatory Model Applied to Telecommunications
针对行业边界日益模糊的现象，整合经济与行为视角，构建了一个概念模型，解释企业为何及如何跨越行业边界，并以电信行业为例进行说明。
Although never a straightforward task, the ‘drawing of lines’ between industry boundaries is becoming ever more difficult in today's economy. The blurring of interindustry boundaries has been attributed to such factors as deregulation, globalization, fundamental breakthroughs in science and the strategic importance of information technology. While this explanation certainly has face validity, it falls short of providing a systematic framework for explaining why firms engage in activities that lead to the blurring of inter-industry boundaries and why/how the nature of boundary crossing actions differs between firms. A conceptual model is developed which integrates economic and behavioral perspectives in an effort to address these issues within the context of the telecommunications industry.