The organization of innovation and market dynamics: Managing increasing returns in software firms

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 374-382

  Van Den Ende, Jan ^a   Wijnberg, Nachoem ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomy of project teams; Bandwagon effects; Increasing returns; Network effects; Organization of innovation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MARKETING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CENTRAL HYPOTHESIS; SOFTWARE FIRMS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0242333979     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2003.817286     Document Type: Article

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