A hedonic study of network effects in the market for word processing software

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 747-763

  Chakravarty, Sujoy ^a   Dogan, Kutsal ^a   Tomlinson, Nels ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Hedonic regression; Monopoly power; Network externalities; Software pricing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINANCE; MICROCOMPUTERS; SPREADSHEETS; WORD PROCESSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HEDONIC REGRESSION; MONOPOLY POWER; NETWORK EXTERNALITIES; SOFTWARE PRICING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 33748272347     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.10.010     Document Type: Article

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