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A Case Study on Collaboration in the Australian Mobile Telecommunication Market

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Collaboration in the Australian and Chinese Mobile Telecommunication Markets

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The Australian mobile telecommunications market is a mature market in terms of industry structure and content integration. The Australian mobile telecommunication market, like most mobile telecommunicate markets in the world, has moved from monopoly to limited competition, from state owned to market driven and from monopoly to competitive. This chapter provides an overview of the Australian mobile telecommunication market in terms of its development, industry structure, contribution to the economy, major firms by market share in each sector and government agencies involved in its regulation and supervision.

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    Guan Xi is one of the major resources in Chinese business, which has a positive influence on business performance (Lu et al. 2006) (e.g. reducing cost, enhancing networks or forming new collaborations).

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Zhang, Y.(. (2014). A Case Study on Collaboration in the Australian Mobile Telecommunication Market. In: Collaboration in the Australian and Chinese Mobile Telecommunication Markets. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40151-0_7

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