"Lock-in" vs. "critical masses" - Industrial change under network externalities

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 753-773

  Witt, Ulrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competing technologies; Critical masses; Diffusion agent; Diffusion processes; Increasing returns to adoption; Industrial change; Innovation; Lock in; Network externalities; Path dependence; Standardization; Technological lock in; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744452559     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7187(97)00010-6     Document Type: Article

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