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001 2001030659
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005 20060124151015.0
008 010313s2001 maua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001030659
020 $a0262182173 (hc. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHC110.H53$bR64 2001
082 00 $a338.4/762/000973$221
100 1 $aRohlfs, Jeffrey H.
245 10 $aBandwagon effects in high-technology industries /$cJeffrey H. Rohlfs.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$cc2001.
300 $axiv, 256 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references ( p. [241]-246) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: I Introduction -- 1 The High-Technology Bandwagon -- 2 A Bandwagon Tour -- 2.1 A Guide to the Tour -- II Bandwagons: How They Work -- 3 Bandwagon Demand -- 3.1 Equilibrium User Sets -- 3.2 Demand as a Function of Price -- 3.3 Metcalfe's Law -- 3.4 Dynamics of Complementary Bandwagon Effects -- 4 Bandwagon Supply -- 4.1 Monopoly versus Competition -- 4.2 Interlinking -- 4.3 Solving the Start-Up Problem -- 4.4 Incentives of Suppliers to Interlink -- 4.5 Supply Coordination with Complementary -- Bandwagon Products -- 4.6 Technical Standards -- 4.7 Proprietor Services versus Customer Equipment -- 4.8 Mature Services -- 4.9 Predatory Pricing -- 5 Summary of Results of Bandwagon Theory -- 5.1 The Cheat Sheet -- im Case Studies -- 6 Fax -- 6.1 Lessons from Case Study -- 7 Early Telephone -- 7.1 Pricing of Exchange Service -- 7.2 Interlinking -- 7.3 Lessons from Case Study -- 8 Picturephone -- 8.1 Picturephone as an Intercom Service -- 8.2 Constructing a Self-Sufficient User Set -- 8.3 Actual Outcome -- 8.4 Lessons from Case Study -- 9 Compact-Disc Players -- 9.1 Technological Standard -- 9.2 CDs Not Available -- 9.3 Small Libraries of CDs -- 9.4 Subsequent Developments -- 9.5 Other Digital Players of Recorded Music -- 9.6 Lessons from Case Study -- 10 VCRs -- 10.1 Early Developments -- 10.2 Early VCR Use -- 10.3 Beta versus VHS -- 10.4 The Bandwagon -- 10.5 The Hollywood Assault -- 10.6 The Videocassette Business -- 10.7 Videodisc Players -- 10.8 Lessons from Case Study -- 11 Personal Computers -- 11.1 Early Application Software -- 11.2 The Rise of the IBM PC -- 11.3 The Decline of the IBM PC -- 11.4 The Role of Apple -- 11.5 The Rise of Intel and Microsoft -- 11.6 Microsoft's Pricing -- 11.7 Recent Applications Software -- 11.8 Linux -- 11.9 Java -- 11.10 The Role of Misjudgments -- 11.11 Lessons from Case Study -- 12 Television -- 12.1 The Emergence of Television -- 12.2 Color Television -- 12.3 High-Definition Television -- 12.4 Lessons from Case Study -- 13 The Internet -- 13.1 Size and Growth of the Internet -- 13.2 Telecommunications Technology -- 13.3 Evolution of the Computer Industry -- 13.4 Telecommunications Prices -- 13.5 The Development of ARPANET -- 13.6 Other Packet-Switched Networks -- 13.7 NSFNET -- 13.8 The Internet after NSFNET -- 13.9 Externalities and Transactions Costs -- 13.10 Current Internet Usage -- 13.11 A Final Reflection -- 13.12 Lessons from Case Study -- IV Conclusions -- 14 Summary of Results -- 14.1 Start-Up Problem -- 14.2 Vertical Integration -- 14.3 Bandwagon Markets without Interlinking -- 14.4 Agreeing to a Technical Standard -- 14.5 Government Intervention -- 15 Final Remarks -- Mathematical Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary of Economics Concepts -- Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aHigh technology industries$zUnited States$vCase studies.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001030659.html