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Road To Open Document Standards, The

This paper looks at a dispute over standards between open source and traditional software interests.

Re-framing Windows: The Durable Meaning of the Microsoft Antitrust Litigation

This paper gives an overview of the results of the Microsoft antitrust case.

Coordinating Failures in Product Selection in Monopolistic Competition Models of Innovation

This paper asks what economic factors affect which innovations are made.

Standards of Power? Technology, Institutions, and Politics in the Development of China’s National Standards Strategy

This paper looks at how Chinese government policies impact high-tech standards.

Strategic Behavior in Standard-Setting Organizations

The paper looks at how firms behave when setting standards.

Patents and the Performance of Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations

This paper looks the effect of making a firm’s technology part of a standard.

How Open is Open Enough? Melding Proprietary and Open Source Platform Strategies

This paper studies Apple, IBM, and Sun Microsystem’s support for open source software.

Regulation and the Internet: Public Choice Insights for Business Organizations

Authors assert that public choice is still an effective tool to understand regulatory changes in the digital economy.

Government Preferences for Promoting Open-Source Software: A Solution in Search of a Problem

This paper looks at whether governments should support open source software.

DVD Versus DIVX Standard War, The: Empirical Evidence of Network Effects and Preannouncement Effects

This paper looks at how firms’ announcements about technology to media affect consumers and competition.