Should buyers try to shape it markets through non-market (Collective) action?: Antecedents of a transaction cost theory of network effects

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 138, Issue , 2004, Pages 131-152

  Reimers, Kai ^a   Li, Mingzhi ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Collective action; It procurement; New technology; Standardization

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; DIFFUSION; STANDARDIZATION;

COLLECTIVE ACTION; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; IT-PROCUREMENT; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; THEORETIC MODEL; TRANSACTION COST; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84902461357     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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