Market structure and the timing of technology adoption with network externalities

European Economic Review

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-244

  Choi, Jay Pil ^a   Thum, Marcel ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Licensing; Network externalities; Standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009930601     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(97)00065-2     Document Type: Article

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