A theory of interdependent demand for a communications service

Rohlfs, J. (1974). A theory of interdependent demand for a communications service. The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, 5(1), 16-37.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1974

Volume

5

Issue

1

Pages

16-37

DOI

10.2307/3003090

DOI registrant

JSTOR

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/3003090

Cited from

economics_finance, physics

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

Primes

• Critical Mass
  • Below the threshold, organizers must keep pushing; above it, participation cascades. Network economics: An adoption network reaches critical mass when each added user makes joining worthwhile for further users, so that growth becomes demand-driven rather than subsidy-driven.
• Increasing Returns
  • … platform ecosystems where Rohlfs's (1974) original network-effect analysis applies (more users attract more developers attract more users), and an industrial economist studying Yelle's (1979) learning-curve regularity in chip fabrication can recognize each other's problems as variants of the same payoff structure.
• Network Effect
  • The economic theory was formalized by Jeffrey Rohlfs in his 1974

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