Survival and competition among social networking websites. A research commentary on "Critical Mass and Willingness to Pay for Social Networks" by J. Christopher Westland

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-22

  Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Critical mass; First mover advantage; Network effects; Social network; Survival

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL MASS; NETWORK EFFECTS; ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGY; RESEARCH RESULTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

RESEARCH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPETITION;

EID: 73749084891     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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