[article]
Titre : |
Information goods vs. industrial goods : Cost structure and competition |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Roy Jones, Auteur ; Haim Mendelson, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2011 |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 164-176 |
Note générale : |
Management |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Information goods Convex development cost Product and price competition |
Index. décimale : |
658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce |
Résumé : |
We study markets for information goods and find that they differ significantly from markets for traditional industrial goods. Markets for information goods in which products are vertically differentiated lack the segmentation inherent in markets for industrial goods. As a result, a monopoly will offer only a single product. Competition leads to highly concentrated information-good markets, with the leading firm behaving almost like a monopoly even with free entry and without network effects. We study how the structure of the firms' cost functions drives our results. |
DEWEY : |
658 |
ISSN : |
0025-1909 |
En ligne : |
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/1/164 |
in Management science > Vol. 57 N° 1 (Janvier 2011) . - pp. 164-176
[article] Information goods vs. industrial goods : Cost structure and competition [texte imprimé] / Roy Jones, Auteur ; Haim Mendelson, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 164-176. Management Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Management science > Vol. 57 N° 1 (Janvier 2011) . - pp. 164-176
Mots-clés : |
Information goods Convex development cost Product and price competition |
Index. décimale : |
658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce |
Résumé : |
We study markets for information goods and find that they differ significantly from markets for traditional industrial goods. Markets for information goods in which products are vertically differentiated lack the segmentation inherent in markets for industrial goods. As a result, a monopoly will offer only a single product. Competition leads to highly concentrated information-good markets, with the leading firm behaving almost like a monopoly even with free entry and without network effects. We study how the structure of the firms' cost functions drives our results. |
DEWEY : |
658 |
ISSN : |
0025-1909 |
En ligne : |
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/1/164 |
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