The impact of network externalities on the competition between open source and proprietary software

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 201-230

  Cheng, Hsing Kenneth ^a   Liu, Yipeng ^b   Tang, Qian ^c  

^a Department of Information Systems   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

^c Nielsen Online ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

competition; network externalities; open source software; software compatibility

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY; TWO-PRODUCT;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROFITABILITY;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955595798     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222270407     Document Type: Article

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