Competing in the age of digital convergence

California Management Review

Volumn , Issue 4, 1996, Pages 31-53

  Yoffie, David B ^a  

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EID: 0030507662     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41165853     Document Type: Article

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3. This point is made most forcefully by Stephen Bradley, David Collis, and P. William Bane, "Winners and Losers: Industry Structure and the Converging World of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment," in David B. Yoffie, ed., Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming).
4. The Economist, July 22, 1995, p. 57.
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6. The four companies were Spyglass, Netscape, Performance Systems International, and UUNET. Business Week, August 21, 1995.
7. Alfred Chandler, "The Computer Industry - The First Half Century," in David B. Yoffie, ed., Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming).
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14. Discussed in McGahan et al., op. cit.
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19. Thomas J. Cottrell, "Fragmented Standards and the Development of Japan's Microcomputer Software Industry," unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley, 1992.
20. For a general discussion of lock-in and lock-out, see Pankaj Ghemawat, Commitment: The Dynamics of Strategy (New York, NY: Free Press, 1991).
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23. Tarun Khanna and David B. Yoffie, "Microsoft 1995," HBS case 9-795-147.
24. Michael Cusumano and Stanley Smith, "Beyond the Waterfall: A Comparison of "Classic" versus PC Software Development," in David B. Yoffie, ed., Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming).
25. Marco Iansiti, "System Focused Product Development in The Computer Industry," in David B. Yoffie, ed., Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming).