Network Externalities, Mutuality, and Compatibility
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Network Externalities, Competition, and Compatibility
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your perso...
متن کاملShould We Wait? Network Externalities, Compatibility, and Electronic Billing Adoption
Prior to joining the doctoral program at Minnesota, he worked in industry and consulting for eleven years at several major companies, including Digital Equipment Corporation as a software specialist, a coal-mining company in Indonesia as a superintendent of computer and network operations, Andersen Consulting as a senior consultant and manager, and an Internet startup as a general manager. His ...
متن کاملVertical Product Di erentiation, Network Externalities, and Compatibility Decisions
We analyse the subgame perfect equilibrium of a four stage game in a model of vertical product di erentiation, where the consumer's evaluation of a product depends on its inherent quality and on its network's size. First, two rms choose their product's inherent quality. Then they may mutually agree on providing an adapter before competing in prices. Finally, consumers buy. We nd that, despite t...
متن کاملOpen Standard Compatibility: Network Externalities versus Product Differentiation∗
We study firms compatibility decisions in a horizontal differentiation model with network externalities. By means of a nested multinomial logit demand structure, we describe the trade-off between network externalities and product differentiation. Simple and general results are derived, which hold for any finite number of firms and which account for any functional form of the externality functio...
متن کاملDesirability of Compatibility in the Absence of Network Externalities
I compare the incentives firms have to produce individual components compatible with components of other manufacturers instead of "systems" composed of components that are incompatible with components of competing manufacturers. I show that, even in the absence of positive consumption externalities ("network" externalities), prices and projits will be higher in the regime of compatibility. Equi...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1303641