Digital piracy: A competitive analysis

Marketing Science

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 610-626

  Jain, Sanjay ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game theory; Innovation; Network effects; Piracy; Pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849102821     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.1070.0313     Document Type: Article

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