Creative destruction : business survival strategies in the global Internet economy / Lee W. McKnight, Paul M. Vaaler, Raul L. Katz, editors.

A collection of 12 papers which "grew out of a March 1999 symposium held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. "Creative Destruction -- or Just Destruction? Telecoms in Transition: Survival and Success in the Global Internet Economy" was co-sponsored by the Fletcher School's Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs, the Fletcher School's Edward R. Murrow Center for International Information and Communication, and Booz Allen & Hamilton"--P.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-280) and index.

Innovation and creative destruction / William J. Baumol -- Internet business models: creative destruction as usual / Lee W. McKnight -- Creative destruction in Latin American telecommunications privatization / Walter T. Molano -- Creative destruction in European Internet industries and policies / Jill Hills and Maria Michalis -- Social communications innovation and destruction in Japan / Leslie Helm -- Alliance enterprise strategies destroying firm boundaries / Peter Pekar, Jr. -- Creating and destroying shareholder value across borders / Paul M. Vaaler -- The Internet protocol and the creative destruction of revenue / Terrence P. McGarty -- A new theory of the Internet firm / William Lehr -- Sustainable open source software business models / Jean Camp -- Alternative industry futures in the global internet economy / Martin G. Hyman and Raul L. Katz.