Arbeitspapier
Coordination vs. differentiation in a standards war: 56K modems
56K modems were introduced under two competing incompatible standards. We show the importance of competition between Internet Service Providers in the adoption process. We show that ISPs were less likely to adopt the technology that more competitors adopted. This result is particularly striking given that industry participants expected coordination on one standard or the other. We speculate about the role of ISP differentiation in preventing the market from achieving standardization until a standard setting organization intervened.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CSIO Working Paper ; No. 0062
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Information and Product Quality; Standardization and Compatibility
Microelectronics; Computers; Communications Equipment
Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Augereau, Angelique
Greenstein, Shane M
Rysman, Marc
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Veröffentlichung
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Northwestern University, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO)
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Evanston, IL
- (when)
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2004
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Augereau, Angelique
- Greenstein, Shane M
- Rysman, Marc
- Northwestern University, Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO)
Time of origin
- 2004
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