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Network externalities, competition, and compatibility
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This article is published in The American Economic Review.The article was published on 1985-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6100 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Network economics.read more
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Born digitals: Thoughts on their internationalization and a research agenda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revisited their theorizing as it relates to firms that had only begun to emerge when Johanson and Vahlne published their award-winning paper: born digitals, and addressed how technological affordances, especially direct engagement with stakeholders, automation, network effects, flexibility and scalability, affect the internationalization of born digital firms.
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Social Influence in Mobile Phone Adoption: Evidence from the Bottom of Pyramid in Emerging Asia
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of social influence in mobile adoption in two modes: one that exerts pressure on individuals to adopt; and another that helps generate benefits via social networks that are tied in with economic and business networks.
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Value drivers of social businesses: A business model perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the characteristics of social businesses from a business model perspective, and propose four value drivers of social business models: responsible efficiency, impact complementarities, shared values, and integration novelties.
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Strategic use of the Internet and e-commerce: Cisco Systems
Kenneth L. Kraemer,Jason Dedrick +1 more
TL;DR: Cisco Systems has used the Internet and its own information systems to support its strategy in several ways: to create a business ecology around its technology standards, to coordinate a virtual organization that allows it to concentrate on product innovation while outsourcing other functions.
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Are We All Online Content Creators Now? Web 2.0 and Digital Divides
TL;DR: Differences in motivation, access, skills, and usage that appear to underlie and perpetuate differences in online content creation practices between social groups are outlined.
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Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model
Michael L. Katz,Harvey S. Rosen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the conjectural variations model of oligopoly to analyze the way in which the incidence of a tax depends upon the pattern of firm interaction and show that the errors that arise in excess burden calculations when incorrect assumptions on market structure are made.
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Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model
Michael L. Katz,Harvey S. Rosen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the conjectural variations model of oligopoly to analyze the way in which the incidence of a tax depends on the pattern of firm interaction and show that the errors that can arise in excess burden calculations when incorrect assumptions on market structure are made.