Despite its enviable market position, and much to the company's dismay, the Swiss cabinet announced in April a plan to throw open Swisscom's lucrative connection business to competition.
Any connection to evolutionary sexual competition is simply a speculative, highly unscientific story made up to get published.
There are the natural-resource barons who grabbed the country's oil, gas and mineral riches after the collapse of communism; there are managers adroit at siphoning off their firm's revenues for personal gain; there are monopolists and cartel-mongers, who use connections to squash competition, and thus make such businesses as selling petrol or building materials fantastically lucrative.
The ethos, Mr. Etundi said, "is to inspire creative people to make works they wouldn't otherwise create, to give them an audience, to give them connection, to give them deadlines within competitions".
For elite athletes, the differences in performance are quite small, thus emphasising the importance of knowing the roller skis' rolling resistance coefficient, especially in connection to research and roller ski competitions.
The Kevin Turner Foundation is working to raise awareness about the seriousness of brain trauma in athletes at every level of competition and its possible connection to ALS.
Lazy incumbents have an incentive to use political connections to protect themselves from competition.
Although there are many examples of ventures that grow to scale in domestic markets (e.g. Russia's Yandex and China's Baidu), even in large markets such as China, Brazil or India, it is a risky bet to rely on language barriers, cultural idiosyncrasies, or special connections to protect you from competition from the big global players.
In her review, Susan Froetschel expresses appreciation for how an understanding of sport's mysterious ability to combine connection with competition could offer lessons in other areas of global governance.
It might also not be greeted warmly by current providers of high-speed D.S.L. and Internet cable data service, who are worried about competition in delivering data connections to homes and businesses.
