Protecting or diff using a technology platform: Tradeoff s in appropriability, network externalities, and architectural control

Platforms, Markets and Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 192-218

  Schilling, Melissa A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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