Fusion of Disruptive Technologies:. Lessons from the Skype Case

European Management Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 174-188

  Rao, Bharat ^a   Angelov, Bojan ^a   Nov, Oded ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communications; Disruptive innovation; Fusion; Integration; P2P; Peer to peer; Skype; Standards; Telephony; VoIP

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746875258     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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