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Value network competition and information technology

Katsamakas, Evangelos - In: Human systems management : HSM 33 (2014) 1/2, pp. 7-17

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Two-Sided Competition of Proprietary vs. Open Source Technology Platforms and the Implications for the Software Industry

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1057-1071

Technology platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, are the hubs of technology industries. We develop a framework to characterize the optimal two-sided pricing strategy of a platform firm; that is, the pricing strategy toward the direct users of the platform as well as toward firms offering...

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Linux vs. Windows: A Comparison of Innovation Incentives and a Case Study

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - Economics Department, Stern School of Business - 2005

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Effects of Quality Improvement and Upgrading on Software Market Disruption

Katsamakas, Evangelos - In: International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) 9 (2018) 4, pp. 1-15

Digital goods, such as software, are significant elements of the contemporary digital economy. The authors propose a model that characterizes dynamic profit-maximizing competitive pricing strategies of digital goods with network effects. In a two-period game theory model, an incumbent firm has a...

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Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms, and the implications for the software industry

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005

Technology platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, are the hubs of technology industries. We develop a framework to characterize the optimal two-sided pricing strategy of a platform firm, that is, the pricing strategy towards the direct users of the platform as well as towards firms offering...

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Linux vs. Windows: A comparison of application and platform innovation incentives for open source and proprietary software platforms

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005

The paper analyzes and compares the investment incentives of platform and application developers for Linux and Windows. We find that the level of investment in applications is larger when the operating system is open source rather than proprietary. The comparison of the levels of investment in...

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An economic analysis of enterprise adoption of open source software

Katsamakas, Evangelos; Xin, Mingdi - NET Institute - 2005

The emergence of open source and Linux has burdened IT managers with the challenge of whether, when, and in what applications to adopt open source software in their firms. We characterize the conditions under which enterprises adopt open source software. We show that adoption depends crucially...

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Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms and the implications for the software industry

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - Economics Department, Stern School of Business - 2004

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Linux vs. Windows: A comparison of application and platform innovation incentives for open source and proprietary software platforms+

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622734

Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms and the implications for the software industry

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005

Technology platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, are the hubs of technology industries. We develop a framework to characterize the optimal two-sided pricing strategy of a platform firm, that is, the pricing strategy towards the direct users of the platform as well as towards firms offering...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622760