Seeking closure: Competition in complementary markets

Decision Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 817-843

  Cattanit, Kyle ^a   Heese, Hans Sebastian ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Complementary markets; Game theory; Proprietary standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449204186     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2009.00252.x     Document Type: Article

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