Digital goods and markets: Emerging issues and challenges

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Bhattacharjee, Sudip ^a   Gopal, Ram D ^a   Marsden, James R ^a   Sankaranarayanan, Ramesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural issues; Digital goods; Digital goods markets; Disembodiment; Distribution; Distribution channels; Emerging technologies; Piracy; Pricing; Risk management; Value chain

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES; DIGITAL GOODS; DISEMBODIMENT; DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; PIRACY; VALUE CHAINS;

COSTS; DESIGN; RESEARCH; RISK MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84860576563     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1985347.1985349     Document Type: Review

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