Platform complexity: Lessons from the music industry

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4625-4634

  Tilson, David ^a   Sørensen, Carsten ^b   Lyytinen, Kalle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT MODELS; DIGITAL PLATFORMS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; MUSIC INDUSTRY;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84875551988     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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