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Reconsideration of the Winner-Take-All Hypothesis: Complex Networks and Local Bias

Lee, Eocman; Lee, Jeho; Lee, Jongseok - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 12, pp. 1838-1848

The literature on network effects has popularized a hypothesis that competition between incompatible technologies results in the "winner-take-all" outcome. For the survival of the firm in this sort of competition, the installed base has been emphasized. We argue that the validity of this...

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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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Research on Innovation: A Review and Agenda for

Hauser, John; Tellis, Gerard J.; Griffin, Abbie - In: Marketing Science 25 (2006) 6, pp. 687-717

recent ideas on network externalities; Organizations and innovation, which are increasingly important as product development …

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A Fallacy of Dominant Price Vectors in Network Industries

Bolle, Friedel; Heimel, Jana - In: Review of Network Economics 4 (2005) 3, pp. 197-204

a fallacy in the presence of network externalities. Even if a provider with a lower market share requires lower prices …

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Two-Sided Markets: A Tentative Survey

Roson, Roberto - In: Review of Network Economics 4 (2005) 2, pp. 142-160

A recent literature, dealing with special markets characterized by bilateral network externalities, is summarized and …

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Sequencing Lifeline Repairs After an Earthquake: An Economic Approach

Casari, Marco; Wilkie, Simon - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 27 (2005) 1, pp. 47-65

Recoveries after recent earthquakes in the U.S. and Japan have shown that large welfare gains can be achieved by reshaping current emergency plans as incentive-compatible contracts. We apply tools from the mechanisms design literature to show ways to integrate economic incentives into the...

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Competition in Two-Sided Markets

Armstrong, Mark - EconWPA - 2005

There are many examples of markets involving two groups of agents who need to interact via 'platforms', and where one group's benefit from joining a platform depends on the number of agents from the other group who join the same platform. This paper presents theoretical models for three variants...

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A consumer-based model of competitive diffusion: the multiplicative effects of global and local network externalities

Tomochi, Masaki; Murata, Hiroaki; Kono, Mitsuo - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 15 (2005) 3, pp. 273-295

parameters and initial configurations, even when there are positive effects of both global and local network externalities …

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Two-Sided Network Effects: A Theory of Information Product Design

Parker, Geoffrey G.; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 10, pp. 1494-1504

space of information product design. We introduce a formal model of two-sided network externalities based in textbook …

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Competing Across Technology-Differentiated Channels: The Impact of Network Externalities and Switching Costs

Viswanathan, Siva - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 3, pp. 483-496

differentiation model to examine the impact of differences in channel flexibility, network externalities, and switching costs on … on both channels is extended to account for differential network externalities and switching costs across the two … in a static market, consumers rather than firms, benefit from increasing network externalities, with competitive effects …

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