In this paper we analyze firms' ability to tacitly collude on prices in software markets. We show that network externality hinders collusion. We also show that firms collude if they value future profits sufficiently.

Рассмотрены проблемы организации деятельности фирмы-посредника по продвижению прикладного программного обеспечения на рынке корпоративных продаж. Определен...

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is, or might become Open Source. Firms can either be proprietary source (PS) or open source (OS) and have different initial technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit...

This article introduces dynamic network externalities into a Hotelling-like model of competition between commercial and free software. The assumption of linear network effects enables a full-fledged dynamic analysis taking boundary solutions into account. The extent of network effects related to...

Our study aims at shedding light on the innovative business strategies in the software sector and particularly providing a better understanding of the economics underlying the supply of Open Source Software (OSS). We use survey data collected from 170 Finnish software companies to investigate...