Strategic intellectual property sharing: Competition on an open technology platform under network effects

Information Systems Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 498-519

  Niculescu, Marius F ^a   Wu, D J ^a   Xu, Lizhen ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Co opetition; Competition; Intellectual property; Network effects; Openness; Platform economics; Software

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GAME THEORY; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; CO-OPETITION; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; NETWORK EFFECTS; OPENNESS; PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGIES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

COMMERCE;

EID: 85048691735     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2017.0756     Document Type: Article

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