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Network Effects, Software Provision, and Standardization

Church, Jeffrey, Gandal, Neil·1992·The Journal of Industrial Economics
DOI 10.2307/2950628
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In this paper, the authors examine the software provision decision of software firms. The provision decision by software firms determines the value and, hence, the market share of competing hardware technologies. The authors show how the provision decision by software firms determines whether multiple hardware technologies are supported in equilibrium or whether there is de facto standardization, with only one hardware technology supplied with software in equilibrium. They show that when consumers place a high value on software variety there is a suboptimal amount of standardization by the market. Copyright 1992 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Authors
Church, J., & Gandal, N.
Venue
The Journal of Industrial Economics
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
1992-03
Volume
40
Issue
1
Pages
85
ISSN
0022-1821 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/2950628
OpenAlex
W2031465258
Cited by
386
References
9
FWCI
25.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
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