...bodies either in standard choice or its implementation can be extremely costly. I study governments’ choice of first generation (1G) mobile telephony standards using an international dataset. Larger and richer...
...uncover the socio-technical complexity of establishing an information infrastructure, a complexity which so far has been severely underestimated by those involved. By studying the process of aligning and linking one...
The primary purpose of this paper is to stimulate discussion about a research agenda for a new interdisciplinary field. This field–the study of coordination–draws upon a variety of different disciplines...
...these systems are open, pasted-up, uncontrollable expanding infrastructures; strategic alignment flounders in never-ending tactics and compromises; globalization generates side-effects. Harnessed to enhance control over complex, global organizations, ERPs enshrine the...
We develop a model of an innovative industry to examine how information technology, by both enhancing matching efficiency and knowledge sharing, can have an ambiguous effect on the total amount...
...contributes new insights by broadening the geographic coverage of the research. Drawing on decades of research on China’s innovation policy in information technology (IT), and on interviews with experts on...
Network externalities are playing an increasingly important role in the economy, with significant implications for marketing strategies of firms. We study the effects of network externalities, in conjunction with other...
This article argues that we need a politics, or perhaps a political economy, of intellectual property. Using the controversy over copyright on the Net as a case-study and the history...
...availability of software titles compatible with each PDA hardware standard. Our empirical results indicate significant indirect network effects. By July 2002, the network effect explains roughly 22% of the log-odds...
The paper develops a conceptual framework to study how standards are created and used in Asian countries that seek to catch up with the productivity and income levels of the...