View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Archive Ouverte en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication How disruptive are disruptive operators? Pierre Vialle, Jason Whalley, Xavier Parisot To cite this version: Pierre Vialle, Jason Whalley, Xavier Parisot. How disruptive are disruptive operators?. 22nd Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Jun 2018, Seoul, South Korea. hal- 02337855 HAL Id: hal-02337855 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02337855 Submitted on 29 Oct 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. How disruptive are disruptive operators? Pierre Vialle 1* , Jason Whalley 1,2 , Xivier Parisot 3 1 – Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, Evry, France 2 – Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK 3 – Institute for Knowledge and Innovation, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand *Corresponding author E:
[email protected] Abstract The issue of disruptive operators has recently gained interest among researchers and regulators. From a regulator’s perspective, disruptive operators can increase competitive rivalry in markets dominated by a handful of large companies, thus allowing consumers to obtain more benefits in terms of price and quality.