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Network Industries in the New Economy
John, McGee; Tanya, Sammut-Bonnici - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
In this paper we discuss two propositions: the supply and demand of knowledge, and network externalities. We outline the characteristics that distinguish knowledge-intensive industries from the general run of manufacturing and service businesses. Knowledge intensity and knowledge specialisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259100
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Network Strategy in the Digital Economy
Sammut-Bonnici, Tanya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
chapter in conjunction with Chapter 19, which deals with knowledge, information and innovation. In this chapter, we are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260034
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Fostering Innovation in Russian Companies in the Post-Crisis Period : Opportunities and Constraints
Simachev, Yuri - 2013
In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool … kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that … Russian industrial enterprises the authors analyze key features of innovation in Russian companies under economic recovery, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083716
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Bargaining agenda in a unionised monopoly with network effects
Fanti, Luciano; Buccella, Domenico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper investigates the bargaining agenda selection in a unionised monopoly with network effects. In contrast with the established result that monopolist always prefers Right-To-Manage (RTM), it is shown that monopolist prefers Sequential Efficient Bargaining (SEB), provided that the network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272016
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Manager-union bargaining agenda under monopoly and with network effects
Fanti, Luciano; Buccella, Domenico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The present paper investigates the determination of the bargaining agenda in a unionised monopoly with managerial delegation, without and with network effects in consumption. First, we show that, in contrast with the received literature, monopolist hires a manager even in the absence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272703
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Free riding and durable adoption: a test of color television consumption in rural China
Rong, Zhao - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using the consumption of color television sets in rural China, this paper documents the existence of a type of network effect – free riding across neighbors, which reduces the propensity of non-owners to purchase. I construct a model of timing the purchase of a durable good in the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294957
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Welfare effects of subsidizing a dead-end network of less polluting vehicles
Dietrich, Antje-Mareike; Sieg, Gernot - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article shows that in the presence of environmental externalities, it may be welfare enhancing to overcome a technological lock-in by a dead- end technology through governmental intervention. It is socially desirable to subsidize a dead-end technology if its environmental externality is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323218
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The Control of Porting in Two-Sided Markets
Pollock, Rufus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
A sizable literature has grown up in recent years focusing on two-sided markets in which economies of scale combined with complementarities between a platform and its associated `software' or `services' can generate indirect network effects (that is positive feedback between the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790001
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users and respond to their needs. If the open source developer wants to promote her own open source standard and solutions, she may choose liberal license terms such as those of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497690
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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)
Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529327