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Participation Games: Market Entry, Coordination and the Beautiful Blonde

Anderson, Simon P; Engers, Maxim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We find the Nash equilibria for monotone n-player symmetric games where each player chooses whether to participate. Examples include market entry games, coordination games, and the bar-room game depicted in the movie 'A Beautiful Mind'. The symmetric Nash equilibrium involves excessive...

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Retailers' Incentive to Sell through a New Selling Channel and Pricing Behavior in a Multi-channel Environment

Lu, Yuanzhu; Xing, Xiaolin; Tang, Fang-Fang - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 9 (2008) 2, pp. 315-343

We consider a duopoly market in which two retailers with different reputation compete in prices and one of the retailers is considering selling through a new channel. Consumers are reputation sensitive and averse to the new channel. In addition, the reputation sensitivity and new channel...

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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2011

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free … access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non … property paradigm. This paper provides an introduction into the topic OSS versus closed source software (CSS, also called …

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A Supply Side Story for a Threshold Model : Endogenous Growth of the Free and Open Source Community

Rullani, Francesco; Zirulia, Lorenzo - 2013

technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with …

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Who Starts with Open Source? Institutional Choice of Start-Ups in the German ICT Sector

Fritsch, Michael; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2013

between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS …

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Governing the Hybrid Business Model : Case of Commercial Open Source Software

Deodhar, Swanand - 2014

software development and distribution (referred from hereon as OSS). Under OSS, volunteers used to provide resources towards … the development of freely available software (von Krogh & von Hippel, 2003; Lerner & Tirole, 2002), that too at a … innovation for developing commercial products (software or otherwise), the dormant paradox is becoming clearer (West & Gallagher …

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Returns from Social Capital in Open Source Software Networks

Mendez-Duron, Rebeca; García, Clara E. - 2009

This paper analyzes the structural dimension of social capital, and its impact on the success of open source software … social capital, contributes to open source software projects’ competitive advantages …

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Informational Hold-Up, Disclosure Policy, and Career Concerns on the Example of Open Source Software Development

Blatter, Marc; Niedermayer, Andras F. - 2008

We consider software developers who can either work on an open source project or on a closed source project. The former …

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Slouching toward Open Innovation : Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Electronic Health Information

Vetter, Greg R. - 2014

The potential for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to enable open innovation in a particular software market … software markets have characteristics that inherently disfavor initiating or expanding the use of FOSS and its unique mode of … licensing the intellectual property that underlies software. The case study involves software to manage health information for …

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Pragmatism Not Ideology : IBM's Love Affair with Open Source Software

Campbell-Kelly, M.; Garcia-Swartz, Daniel D. - 2014

Today IBM is perceived as being in the vanguard of open source software and a leading participant in the free software … community. Paradoxically, IBM is also the world's second largest vendor of proprietary software products. In this paper we argue … that IBM's embrace of open source software comes not from a new-found ideology, but from its history of pragmatism. Simply …

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