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Digital transformation, business models and the postal industry

Nandkumar Harshan Kollara

For many decades, the postal industry offered postal services and in parallel, had a monopoly over the national postal markets. Recently, the postal industry endured a phase where their national postal markets were subjected to liberalisation by the respec ...

EPFL2017

Regulatory Institutions and Governance Costs : The Case of the Postal Sector

Martin Maegli

In recent decades, the European postal industry has undergone profound reforms, which aim to promote competition while simultaneously maintaining a high level of universal services for consumers. It is often put forth that market opening and the emergence ...

EPFL2012

Co-opetition: strategy and performance of firms in standard setting organizations : the case of the postal sector

Farah Abdallah

Co-opetition is a new field of business and of thinking. It occurs when companies collaborate joining their efforts for creating new value, while maintaining their rivalries, aspiring to outperform the other firms in the network. This new perspective advoc ...

EPFL2011

Postal Markets and Electronic Substitution: What is the Impact of Intermodal Competition on Regulatory Practices and Institutions

Martin Maegli

This increasing convergence between postal products and telecom applications is a new phenomenon in the communications environment: Postal operators provide new services on telecom infrastructures, telecom infrastructures are likely to substitute last mile ...

2010

Postal Markets and Electronic Substitutions: What is the Impact of Intermodal Competition on Regulatory Practices and Institutions

Martin Maegli

2010

Smart camera with embedded co-processor: a postal sorting application

Marco Mattavelli, Romuald Mosqueron

This work describes an image acquisition and processing system based on a new co-processor architecture designed for CMOS sensor imaging. The platform permits to configure a wide variety of acquisition modes (random region acquisition, variable image size, ...

2008

The effect of liberalisation on incumbent's innovation : the case of the postal sector

The network industries have been undergoing a process of reform, where liberalisation is one of the main features. This thesis studies the effect of liberalisation, with and without competition, on the incumbent's incentives to innovate. A model of incumbe ...

EPFL2008