FREE SOFTWARE OFFER AND SOFTWARE DIFFUSION: THE MONOPOLIST CASE

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 881-887

  Jiang, Zhengrui ^a   Sarkar, Sumit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bass Model; diffusion; Free software

Indexed keywords

MARKETING;

BASS DIFFUSION MODEL; BASS MODEL; CASH FLOW; DIFFUSION PROCESS; FREE SOFTWARE; MARKETING PROCESS; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; SOFTWARE FIRMS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 85017433450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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