Critical mass and willingness to pay for social networks

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-19

  Westland, J Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical mass; Metcalfe's Law; Network demand; Network structure; Percolation theory; Phase change; Reed's Law; Sarnoff's Law

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL MASS; NETWORK DEMANDS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PERCOLATION THEORY; PHASE CHANGE;

PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); SOLVENTS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 74149089853     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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