Generational transitions in platform markets-the role of backward compatibility

Strategy Science

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 90-104

  Kretschmer, Tobias ^a   Claussen, Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Backward compatibility; Installed base; Platform markets; Video game industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048661367     PISSN: 23332050     EISSN: 23332077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2015.0009     Document Type: Article

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