581 INTRODUCTION: SPECIAL ISSUE ON INVESTMENT IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY INFRASTRUCTURE B. Killaly and W. Mitchell 585 GUIDED COMPETITION IN SINGAPORE'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY K. Singh 601 FACILITIES COMPETITION AND LOCAL NETWORK INVESTMENT: THEORY, EVIDENCE AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS G. A. Woroch 615 WORLDWIDE WAIT? HOW THE TELECOM ACT'S UNBUNDLING REQUIREMENTS SLOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE D.J. Aron, K. Dunmore and F. Pampush 623 FOUR APPROACHES TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEREGULATION AND COMPETITION: THE USA, THE UK, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND J.R. Green and D.J. Teece 637 STRATEGIC NETWORKED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: EMPIRICAL RESULTS OF COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR S.A.R. Garrod 637 STRATEGIC NETWORKED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: EMPIRICAL RESULTS OF COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR S.A.R. Garrod 663 THE IMPACT OF HUMAN CAPITAL QUALITY ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM IN THE US TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY S.K. Majumdar 679 MASS MARKET ENTRY OF WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS S. Manova, G. Brody, S. Madhavapeddy and V. Gylys 695 EMERGING PATTERS IN GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ALLIANCES AND MERGERS M.A. Jamison 715 THE ROLE OF ACQUISITIONS IN RESHAPING BUSINESS CAPABILITIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY L. Capron and W. Mitchell 731 GROWTH INCENTIVES TO INVEST IN A NETWORK EXTERNALITY ENVIRONMENT M. Chacko and W. Mitchell 745 ITS STANDARDS IN THE CONTEXT OF TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE A. Nagarajan 759 GAINS FROM CHANGE: THE IMPACT OF MARKET AND MODE OF SERVICE CHANGES ON PERFORMANCE IN THE US INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES INDUSTRY B. Killaly 769 ANNUAL TITLE INDEX 771 ANNUAL AUTHOR INDEX