Pushing technological progress by strategic manoeuvring: The triumph of Blu-ray over HD-DVD

Business History

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1361-1384

  den Uijl, Simon ^a   de Vries, Henk J ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blu ray; dominant design; format wars; HD DVD; innovation management

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84886946743     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2013.771332     Document Type: Article

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