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Part of the book series: Information Age Economy (AGEECONOMY)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Standards play a prominent role in systems characterized by interaction. In information systems, standards provide for compatibility and are a prerequisite for collaboration benefits. More generally speaking, standards constitute networks. In this work, a standardization framework based on an analysis of deficiencies of network effect theory and a game theoretic network equilibrium analysis is developed. Fundamental determinants of diffusion processes in networks (e.g. network topology, agent size, installed base) are identified and incorporated into a computer-based simulation model. As a result, typical network behaviour (specific diffusion patterns) can be explained and many findings from traditional network effect theory can be described as special cases of the model at particular parameter constellations (e.g. low price, high density). On this basis, solution strategies for standardization problems are developed, and a methodological path towards a unified theory of networks is proposed.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economics of Standards in Information Networks
Authors: Tim Weitzel
Series Title: Information Age Economy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2664-7
Publisher: Physica Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-0076-0Published: 01 December 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-2664-7Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 292
Number of Illustrations: 106 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, IT in Business, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Business and Management, general