Platform envelopment

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1270-1285

  Eisenmann, Thomas ^a   Parker, Geoffrey ^b   Van Alstyne, Marshall ^c  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bundling; entry; network effects; platforms; two sided markets

Indexed keywords

BUNDLING; ENTRY; NETWORK EFFECTS; PLATFORMS; TWO-SIDED MARKETS;

COMPETITION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 80053564187     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.935     Document Type: Article

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