Abstract
The focus of this paper is to be upon the differential effect of national institutional frameworks on actors in a pivotal sector in the growth of global markets-telecommunications. We emphasise the varying modalities in which corporate and sectoral agendas inform public policy making and vice versa in a manner which modifies the institutional framework. We seek to illustrate the multi-layered nature of this interaction between structures and actors. The paper will describe the manner in which the telecommunications sector emerged historically within different national business systems (NBSs) and has become a global arena for contest between multi-national corporations (MNCs) serviced by regional supply chains. The life cycle effects of emergent boundaries to sectoral relationships and to technological “best-practice” are seen to be shaped both by national ideologies and institutional frameworks and by a range of competitive and what are sometimes loosely described as isomorphic pressures. In this process the MNC is seen to acquire an increasing degree of detachment from any single NBS and an ability to leverage its capabilities across national markets.
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