AN ECONOMIC AND OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SERVICES

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 826-833

  Kaya, Cuneyd ^a   Dogan, Kutsal ^a   Mookerjee, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Content distribution; content providers; pricing of services

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

CONDITION; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; CONTENT PROVIDERS; DISTRIBUTION SERVICES; ECONOMIC AND OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC MODELS; MONOPOLISTICS; OPERATIONAL MODELING; PRICING OF SERVICE; SERVICE PROVIDER;

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS;

EID: 78651570670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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