Dethroning an established platform

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 35-41

  Suarez, Fernando F ^a   Kirtley, Jacqueline ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. See, for instance, K. Boudreau, "Open Platform Strategies and Innovation: Granting Access vs. Devolving Control," Management Science 56, no. 10 (October 2010): 1849-1872;
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7. Cusumano and Gawer, "Elements of Platform Leadership."
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