increasing prevalence of non-exclusive software gives rise to indirect network effects that exist between users of competing and … incompatible hardware platforms. This is because software non-exclusivity, like hardware compatibility, allows a software firm to …'s software on all firms' installed bases. We look for evidence of these market-wide network effects by estimating a model of …

software development. Cusumano focuses on the creation of "software factories" in which large numbers of people are engaged in … developing software in cooperative ways--i.e. individual programs are not developed in isolation but rather utilize portions of … of Japanese and U.S. software factories, Cusumano's book will be important reading for all people involved in software …