Open source development with a commercial complementary product or service

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-43

  Haruvy, Ernan ^a   Sethi, Suresh P ^a   Zhou, Jing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Network externalities; Open source; Optimal control; Pricing research

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149097142     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3401/poms.1070.0004     Document Type: Article

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