Economies of product development by users: The impact of "sticky" local information

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 629-644

  Von Hippel, Eric ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous Markets; Local Information; Mass Customization; Specialization in Problem Solving; Sticky Information; Task Partitioning; User Innovation

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SCHEDULING; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER TELEPHONY INTEGRATION (CTI) SYSTEMS; MASS CUSTOMIZATIONS; TASK PARTITIONING;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032071638     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.5.629     Document Type: Article

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