Factors for winning interface format battles: A review and synthesis of the literature

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1397-1411

  Van de Kaa, Geerten ^a   Van den Ende, Jan ^b   De Vries, Henk J ^b   Van Heck, Eric ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dominant design; Interface format; Standards battles; Technology battles; Technology selection

Indexed keywords

DOMINANT DESIGN; INTERFACE FORMAT; INTERFACE FORMATS; META-ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY SELECTION;

LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; STAKEHOLDER; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 80053190628     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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