The Dvd-vs.-Divx Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Network Effects and Preannouncement Effects

By David Dranove, Neil Gandal. 2003

209 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Marketing, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2562d9d78eb9608206105f8d6fbf708b39cac895

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Citations in the corpus

• Unpaid Crowd Complementors: The Platform Network Effect Mirage (2015, unknown): “…and profits, we theorize 3 Empirical research has found analogous patterns in publishing and advertising platforms (Rysman, 2004), media systems (Dranove and Gandal, 2003), mobile computing (Nair et al., 2004), and videogame consoles (Schilling, 2002; Shankar and Bayus, 2003; Venkatraman and…”
• Innovation ecosystems and the pace of substitution: Re‐examining technology S‐curves (2016, background): “, 2007), standards (Dranove and Gandal, 2003), and information contagion (Iyengar, Van den Bulte, and Valente, 2011).”
• Network effects and the choice of mobile phone operator (2006, background): “Recent empirical studies include Goolsbee and Klenow (2002) on home computers, Berndt et al. (2003) on anti-ulcer drugs, Dranove and Gandal (2003) on DVD-players, Rysman (2004) on yellow pages and Gowrisankaran and Stavins (2004) on electronic payment.”
• How Firms Capture Value From Their Innovations (2013, background): “For instance, it has been suggested that publicly disclosing information regarding an innovation may encourage rivals to develop complementary technologies (Harhoff, Henkel, & von Hippel, 2003) or help to establish a technological standard (Dranove & Gandal, 2003).”
• Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature (2020, unknown): “This led to firms using tactics such as preannounce-ments, “vaporware,” and misleading statements about installed base size and market share (Dranove & Gandal, 2003; Farrell & Saloner, 1986; Le Nagard-Assayag & Manceau, 2001; Schilling, 2003).”