Positive and negative feedback effects in competition for dominance of network business systems

Research Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 871-884

  Sillanpää, Antti ^a,b   Laamanen, Tomi ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Finnish National Defence University   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competition; Evolutionary theory; Imitation; Network externalities

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; IMITATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACKS; NETWORK EXTERNALITIES; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; POSITIVE FEEDBACKS; UNITED KINGDOMS;

COMPETITION; DIGITAL TELEVISION; DYNAMICS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; TELEVISION NETWORKS;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 64049119905     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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