List of Contents -- PART I: CONVERGENCE IN COMMUNICATIONS: AN OVERVIEW -- CHAPTER 1 Convergence in Communications and Beyond: An Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 Convergence, the Internet and Multimedia: Implications for the Evolution of Industries and Technologies -- CHAPTER 3 Convergence and Implications for Users, Market Players and Regulators -- PART II: PRACTICAL POLICY PERSPECTIVES FROM THE TRIAD -- CHAPTER 4 The Impact of Internet on Communications Regulatory Models in Europe -- CHAPTER 5 US Policy on Global Electronic Commerce and the Internet -- CHAPTER 6 The New Direction of Regulation and Deregulation in the Converging Japanese Telecommunications Market -- PART III: INTERNET AND USER DEMAND -- CHAPTER 7 Network Demand Model and Global Internet Traffic Forecasting -- CHAPTER 8 Pricing and Residential Internet Traffic -- CHAPTER 9 Closing in on the Web Consumer - A Study in Internet Shopping -- PART IV: CONVERGENCE AND BUSINESS NETWORKING -- CHAPTER 10 Governance and Technological Change: Transaction Costs in Telco-equipment Supplier Networks -- CHAPTER 11 The Impact of Information Technology on the Boundaries of the Firm -- CHAPTER 12 Electronic Coordination of Retailer-Supplier Transactions: Implications for Business-to-business Electronic Commerce -- PART V: CONVERGENCE, STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE -- CHAPTER 13 The Flexible Specialization Path of the Internet -- CHAPTER 14 Firms' Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Entry in a New Sector: An Empirical Analysis of the Multimedia Sector -- CHAPTER 15 Industrial Organizational Implications of Electronic Commerce -- CHAPTER 16 Local Versus Global Markets in Electronic Commerce: Towards a Conceptualization of Local Electronic Commerce Strategies -- PART VI: CONVERGENCE AND REGULATORY TRANSFORMATION.

CHAPTER 17 Toward a Theory of the Global Liberalization of Telecommunications: Implications for Convergence Regulation -- CHAPTER 18 Toward an Integrated Universal Services Policy for the "Mediamatics" Sector -- CHAPTER 19 Regulatory Challenges in Convergence: Beyond Internet Telephony -- CHAPTER 20 Converging European Communications Regulation: From Structural Regulation to Behavioural Competition Law -- CHAPTER 21 The Road to Global Regulation of Electronic Commerce -- PART VII: CONVERGENCE, FUTURES AND RESEARCH AGENDAS -- CHAPTER 22 Paths to Convergence: The Roles of Popularisation, Virtualisation and Intermediation -- CHAPTER 23 A Perspective on the Information Economy -- CHAPTER 24 Four Convergences and a Trade Funeral? -- AUTHOR INFORMATION -- INDEX.