Ownership and Control Rights in Internet Portal Alliances, 1995-1999
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We thank Mark Edwards of Recombinant Capital and Seth Segel of Media Metrix for access to their organizations’ data and a number of practitioners for helpful discussions. Drew Fudenberg, Robert Gibbons, Richard Gilbert, Oliver Hart, Dale Jorgenson, Ariel Pakes, Robert Porter (Editor), Jean Tirole, two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, the National University of Singapore, Ohio State, the University of Southern California, and the January 2001 IDEI conference on the Economics of Software and the Internet provided helpful comments. Harvard Business School’s Division of Research provided financial support.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002