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The impact of asymmetric regulation on product bundling : the case of fixed broadband and mobile communications in Japan

Kuroda, Toshifumi; Ida, Takanori; Koguchi, Teppei - 2015

Product bundling may benefit or harm consumers dependingon the correlation betweenconsumer willingness to pay for the bundledgoods and the levels of market dominance of firms. We develop astructural demand model that allows for correlatedconsumer's willingness to pay and flexible...

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The platform economy : how Japan transformed the consumer internet

Steinberg, Marc - 2019

Introduction -- Contents discourse: a platform prelude -- Platform typology: from hardware to contents -- The Japanese genesis of transactional platform theory -- Docomo's i-mode and the formatting of the mobile internet -- Platforms after i-mode: Dwango's Niconico video -- Conclusion: the...

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Mobile game price discrimination effect on users of freemium services : an initial outline of game of chance elements in Japanese F2P mobile games

Koeder, Marco; Tanaka, Ema; Sugai, Philip - 2017

This paper offers a look at the Japanese mobile free to play market with a focus on "Gacha", a game of luck mechanism used in many Japanese games. The paper tries to explain about the concept of Gacha, its different forms, some known regulation issues and briefly looks at player and...

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Mobile payments in Japan, South Korea and China : cross-border convergence or divergence of business models?

Miao, Miao; Krishna Jayakar - In: Telecommunications policy : the international journal … 40 (2016) 2/3, pp. 182-196

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Why "i-mode" mobile platform failed to succeed outside Japan : an analysis from a business model perspective

Al-Debei, Mutaz M.; Al-Lozi, Enas; Al-Hujran, Omar; … - In: International journal of business innovation and research 11 (2016) 3, pp. 397-416

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Japanese business models for electronic commerce : laying the foundation of a ubiquitous networking infrastructure with mobile phones and convenience stores

Joffe, Hilda - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 3, pp. 546-570

Internet access and usage is PC-centred. This is not the case in Japan, where Internet usage and electronic commerce in … products of the regional urban structure and lifestyles. Distinct features of Japan’s urban areas favouring the use of mobile … are about to expand to other Southeast Asian countries, where urban structures are similar to those in Japan. One has to …

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