Freemium as an Optimal Strategy for Market Dominant Firms
- 1 January 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Marketing Science
- Vol. 38 (1) , 150-169
Abstract
We explain why dominant firms give away good-quality products for free when network externalities are present.Keywords
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