Leveraging technological externalities in complex technologies: Microsoft's exploitation of standards in the browser wars

Research Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 385-394

  Windrum, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lock in; Microsoft; Polya Urn; Standards; Web browser

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; HTML; INTERNET; INTEROPERABILITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY;

LOCK-IN; MICROSOFT; POLYA URN;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 1842580231     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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