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An Empirical Examination of Direct and Indirect Network Externalities of the Japanese Handheld Computer Industry: An Empirical Study of the Early Days

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Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications

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As a mobile tool, the handheld computer provides accessibility to information for users away from their homes or offices. This accessibility is based on the technology that exhibits both direct and indirect network externalities. The empirical results suggest that communication technologies (direct network externalities) and compatible technologies with PC (indirect network externalities) are among the most important technical attributes of the handheld computer.

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    See, e.g., Spady and Friedlaender [13], Gibbons et al. [14] and Tremblay [15] for a description and an application of this technique.

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  1. Akita Prefectural University, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Yurihonjo City, Akita, 015-0055, Japan

    Michiko Miyamoto

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  1. Department of Computer Systems Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

    Qing-An Zeng

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Miyamoto, M. (2016). An Empirical Examination of Direct and Indirect Network Externalities of the Japanese Handheld Computer Industry: An Empirical Study of the Early Days. In: Zeng, QA. (eds) Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 348. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2580-5_7

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