Failure to launch: Critical mass in platform businesses

Review of Network Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Evans, David S ^a   Schmalensee, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

network; platform; startup; two sided

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051992769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14469022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1446-9022.1256     Document Type: Article

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