The market that never was: Turf wars and failed alliances in mobile payments

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1486-1512

  Ozcan, Pinar ^a   Santos, Filipe M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b INSEAD   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

interfirm negotiation; market architecture; market emergence; market failure; resource dependence

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

INTERFIRM NEGOTIATION; MARKET ARCHITECTURES; MARKET FAILURES; MOBILE PAYMENT; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; RESOURCE DEPENDENCES; TURF WAR;

ELECTRONIC MONEY;

EID: 84941043025     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2292     Document Type: Article

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