Forecasting the evolution of wireless technologies: The Loglet analysis approach

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 328-347

  Kim, Hak Ju ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3G; Competing technologies; Network effect; Path dependency; Substitution effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863441961     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2012.047534     Document Type: Article

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