Short-term and long-term competition between providers of shrink-wrap software and software as a service

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 661-671

  Fan, Ming ^a   Kumar, Subodha ^a   Whinston, Andrew B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential game; Economics; Pricing; Quality competition; Software as a service

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COSTS; ECONOMICS; GAME THEORY;

DIFFERENTIAL GAME; EQUILIBRIUM OUTCOMES; EQUILIBRIUM PRICES; IMPLEMENTATION COSTS; MAINTENANCE SERVICES; OPERATION COSTS; OPERATION EFFICIENCIES; PRICING; QUALITY COMPETITION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS; RESEARCH USES; SERVICE OPERATIONS; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE QUALITIES; SOFTWARE SERVICES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 58149233944     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.04.023     Document Type: Article

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