Abstract
This article examines what determines the success of a standard coalition. We test empirically for network effect, experience effect, and industrial and geographical relatedness in the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD standard war.
Notes
1 Indeed, because we are dealing with two standards only, the number of partners cannot be directly used in the model: such a number would be a perfect predictor of success.
2 We checked that outliers did not drive this result.