Open source or closed source? A competitive analysis with software security

DOI10.1287/DECA.2019.0390MaRDI QIDQ5120276zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Xing Gao

Publication date 9 September 2020

Published in Decision Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/deca.2019.0390

zbMATH Keywords

business modelscompetitionsecurity concern

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX)

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• Short-term and long-term competition between providers of shrink-wrap software and software as a service
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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2087586 (Why is no real title available?)

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