Options Analysis of Software Platform Decisions: A Case Study

By A. Taudes, M. Feurstein, Andreas Mild. MIS Q., 2000

343 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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1. Robert G. Fichman
2. Chandrasekaran Ranganathan
3. Carol V. Brown
4. Xinlin Tang
5. Arun Rai
6. Michel Benaroch

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1. Robert G. Fichman
2. Arun Rai
3. Chandrasekaran Ranganathan
4. Xinlin Tang
5. Carol V. Brown
6. Michel Benaroch

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1. Robert G. Fichman
2. Arun Rai
3. Chandrasekaran Ranganathan
4. Xinlin Tang
5. Carol V. Brown
6. Michel Benaroch

Citations in the corpus

• Leveraging IT Capabilities and Competitive Process Capabilities for the Management of Interorganizational Relationship Portfolios (2010, background): “A second item measured the platform’s potential to grow to accommodate new applications or functions as necessary (Fichman 2004, Taudes et al. 2000).”
• Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom? An Early Look at Large Numbers of Software App Developers and Patterns of Innovation (2012, neutral): “The role of providing tools and facilities is so integral to software platforms that these enabling tools are often viewed as synonymous with the platform ( e.g. , Taudes et al. 2000).”
• Managing Information Technology Investment Risk: A Real Options Perspective (2002, background): “(Strategic) Growth IT investment yields capabilities that open up future investment opportunities as well as permits the firm to respond quickly to competitive or regulatory threats [33, 31].”
• ERP Investments and the Market Value of Firms: Toward an Understanding of Influential ERP Project Variables (2006, background): “An investment in a clientserver ERP platform therefore creates growth options for future investments in Web-based e-commerce and other e-supply chain functionality that could not be exercised by firms with a less modern integrated architecture (Taudes et al. 2000).”
• Real Options and IT Platform Adoption: Implications for Theory and Practice (2004, methodology): “However, this paper will focus on the growth options associated with early investments in IT platforms. net present value (NPV) estimate (and sometimes by quite a wide margin, Taudes et al. 2000).”