Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World

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Louis Galambos (The Johns Hopkins University) Eric John Abrahamson (The Prologue Group)

Anytime, Anywhere

Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World

Louis Galambos (The Johns Hopkins University), Eric John Abrahamson (The Prologue Group)

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Cambridge University Press
21 July 2011

History of the Americas; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Entrepreneurship; Postal & telecommunications industries

Wireless entrepreneurs are transforming the way people live and work around the globe. In the process they have created some of the fastest-growing companies on the planet. This book tells the story of the birth and explosion of cellular and wireless communications as seen through the eyes of one of the industry's pioneers, Sam Ginn. As deregulation and privatisation swept the globe, Ginn and his team at Air Touch Communications fought for and won licenses on several continents. They built an amazingly successful business using strategic partnerships and joint ventures. In the process they demonstrated a new model for global entrepreneurship in a high-tech, information-based economy. The combination of Air Touch with Vodafone in 1999, and Vodafone with Mannesmann in Europe in 2000 created the largest wireless business in the world. Vodafone also formed a joint venture with Bell Atlantic to create the largest wireless company in America.

By: Louis Galambos (The Johns Hopkins University), Eric John Abrahamson (The Prologue Group)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780521398565
ISBN 10: 0521398568
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 21 July 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Bidding for the future of a wireless world; 2. From deep traditions; 3. California miseries; 4. Birth of a wireless world; 5. First mover advantages; 6. Innocents abroad; 7. Margaret Thatcher's revolution; 8. Separating from the past; 9. Creating Air Touch; 10. The wireless explosion begins; 11. A call from across the Atlantic; 12. Combining cultures and unfinished business; 13. The emergence of a global powerhouse; 14. A wireless world.

Reviews for Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World

Review of the hardback: '... the combination of academic insights with the 'insider' perspective derived from interviews with key players makes for a very readable and interesting book.' Business History ...brilliant... American Historical Review A very useful and crisply-written case study. Catholic Biblical Quarterly The book provides a fascinating case study in 'alliance entrepreneurship' and the modern blending of technology and cross-border capital. Foreign Affairs Anyone interested in the cellular history (i.e., technological or biographical) should read this book.... This reviewer found the book exciting and packed with historical tidbits that make the history of these devices come alive, much as Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine R (1981) did for the computer revolution by focusing on the management of technology.... Recommended for practitioners and interested general readers and for academic collections, lower-division undergraduate and up. Choice In conclusion, Anytime, Anywhere gives a clear, reliable, and historically informed description of one of the central corporate stories of the wireless telephony industry, an important area unexplored by historians....the book will give the reader with no previous knowledge a clear idea of the crucial business and technological shifts in the industry. Business History Review