Barry L. Bayus, Sanjay Jain, Ambar G. Rao,
... to allegations that firms are intentionally engaging in vaporware. The possible predatory and anti-competitive implications of ... between firms, we consider the possibility that intentional vaporware is a way to dissuade competitors from developing ... software industry suggests that some firms may use vaporware in a strategic manner. We then formulate and ... model of two competing firms. We find that vaporware can be a way for a dominant firm ... signal its product development costs, and that intentional vaporware can deter entry. We also show that there ...
Tópico(s): Game Theory and Applications
2000 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Barry L. Bayus, Sanjay Jain, Ambar G. Rao,
... to allegations that firms are intentionally engaging in vaporware. The possible predatory and anticompetitive implications of this ... firms, the authors consider the possibility that intentional vaporware is a way to dissuade competitors from developing ... the software industry suggests that some firms use vaporware in a strategic manner. The authors then formulate ... model of two competing firms. They find that vaporware can be a way for a dominant firm ... signal its product development costs and that intentional vaporware can deter entry. The authors also show that ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
2001 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Marketing Research
... in the computer industry are often accused of vaporware, the untruthful pre‐announcement of a new version ... The paper analyzes this phenomenon. It shows that vaporware is an equilibrium strategy in a signaling game ... private information. In this model, the possibility of vaporware can hurt consumers, also in the case the ... version of its product. The welfare effects of vaporware are ambiguous.
Tópico(s): Digital Platforms and Economics
2003 - Wiley | Journal of Industrial Economics
... contexts, this paper examines impacts of brand, prior vaporware history, and innovativeness conveyed by NPP signals, as ... consumers may mainly rely on brand and prior vaporware history to decide whether to purchase this new ... strong brand, or from a company without prior vaporware. The results also demonstrate that the brand and vaporware impacts on purchase intention are moderated by consumer ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
2011 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Nankai Business Review International
... find that an incumbent prefers to follow a vaporware strategy—i.e., declares plans to pursue a ... of any ex post cost to engaging in vaporware. In an extension, we let the incumbent's ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
2013 - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | Marketing Science
Jay Pil Choi, Eirik Gaard Kristiansen, Jae Hyon Nahm,
... cheap talk.” We develop a reputation model of “vaporware” where the product pre‐announcement can partially convey ...
Tópico(s): Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
2010 - Wiley | International Economic Review
... to date, mobile medicine has been more virtual vaporware than digital dynamo. There is almost universal acknowledgment ... whether or not it will turn into virtual vaporware, time will tell, but with struggling world economies, ... with no demonstrable returns on investment is virtual vaporware. In the rapidly advancing and changing worlds of ...
Tópico(s): Wireless Body Area Networks
2016 - Elsevier BV | Canadian Journal of Cardiology
... product diffusion and adoption; (3) firm value; (4) vaporware and antitrust litigations; and (5) consumer welfare. In ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
2008 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... product diffusion and adoption; (3) firm value; (4) vaporware and antitrust litigations; and (5) consumer welfare. In ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
2010 - Wiley | Journal of Product Innovation Management
This research develops a signaling game that captures the essential dynamics of new product preannouncements (preannouncement/launch/market feedback). New product preannouncements are preannouncing firms' formal efforts to inform their competitors and customers about the future availability, superior quality and introductory price of their upcoming new products. In a market, two firms compete (entrant preannounces and incumbent responds) across two periods. The entrant has private information about ...
Tópico(s): Game Theory and Applications
2011 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Business Research
... When the entrant's claims are not verifiable, vaporware announcements arise in equilibrium, and I demonstrate that ...
Tópico(s): Game Theory and Applications
2004 - Wiley | The RAND Journal of Economics
Software preannouncements are often called "vaporware" (systems or features announced long before a ship date). The challenge confronting software vendors and consumers is understanding the balance between ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2000 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Management Information Systems
In this paper, we empirically measure the effect of the DIVX preannouncement in the DVD market. We do this by measuring the effect of potential (incompatible) competition on a network undergoing growth. We find that there are network effects in the DVD market and that the preannouncement of DIVX slowed down the adoption of DVD technology. This suggests that strategic preannouncements can indeed affect the outcome of a standards competition.
Tópico(s): Copyright and Intellectual Property
2000 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Contrary to the claims of its well-financed promoters, the Internet will not solve the administrative redundancies, economic inefficiencies, or quality problems that have plagued the U.S. health care system for decades. These phenomena are the result of economic, organizational, legal, regulatory, and cultural conflicts rooted in a health care system grown from hybrid public and private financing; cultural expectations of unlimited access to unlimited medical resources; and the use of third-party ...
Tópico(s): Medication Adherence and Compliance
2000 - Project HOPE | Health Affairs
... reality and thereby helps us move beyond the vaporware promises of digital utopians and take the first ...
Tópico(s): Wikis in Education and Collaboration
2015 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Tópico(s): Asian Industrial and Economic Development
1997 - SAGE Publishing | The Antitrust Bulletin
... being “trained” on Taos, the never-to-emerge vaporware from DRA.) As Raymond also makes clear in ...
Tópico(s): Digital Rights Management and Security
2009 - Association for Information Science and Technology | Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
... two of the most frequent frames are the “vaporware” frame, relating to technologies not yet ready for ...
Tópico(s): Media, Communication, and Education
2009 - SAGE Publishing | Public Understanding of Science
... describes an ideal, currently nonexistent system called the Vaporware Board, which will however become practical in the ...
Tópico(s): Music and Audio Processing
1988 - The MIT Press | Computer Music Journal
David A. Siegel, Tracy Rouchka,
Over the years, this column has explored how user-centered design (UCD) fits into the design and development process in the business world. In the context of traditional practices, UCD is often viewed as an added cost, one that has at most long-range benefits. Of course, when a conflict is perceived between what is needed to maximize long-range value and what is needed to successfully meet urgent near-term challenges, the latter usually wins out. Therefore, practitioners of UCD tend to search for ...
Tópico(s): Open Source Software Innovations
2002 - Association for Computing Machinery | interactions
... like the VW Diesel Cheat, Theranos's biotech vaporware, and the Boeing 737-MAX call us to ...
Tópico(s): Research, Science, and Academia
2023 - Springer Nature (Netherlands) | Philosophy of engineering and technology
Natasha Zhang Foutz, Vrinda Kadiyali,
... industry contain important competitive intelligence and are not vaporware or cheap talk. The dynamic model of firms ...
Tópico(s): Digital Platforms and Economics
2006 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Vaporware is a misleading preannouncement strategy. The established view about such a marketing strategy is that it ... The literature also suggests that firms engage in vaporware in order to deter the entry of potential ... wisdoms and shows that the optimality of the vaporware strategy depends on the tradeoff between the market ... the cannibalisation effect. Specifically, the study finds that vaporware is only optimal for a firm with a ... improvement over the existing product. To eliminate the vaporware incentive, this study proposes a signalling price mechanism. ...
Tópico(s): Supply Chain and Inventory Management
2008 - Inderscience Publishers | International Journal of Technology Marketing
... in the computer industry are often accused of vaporware, the untruthful pre-announcement of a new version ... The paper analyzes this phenomenon. It shows that vaporware is an equilibrium strategy in a signaling game ... private information. In this model, the possibility of vaporware can hurt consumers, also in the case the ... version of its product. The welfare effects of vaporware are ambiguous.
Tópico(s): Auction Theory and Applications
2003 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... in the Japanese market, could be classified as 'vaporware' posing potential antitrust issues. Using a stock event approach, the research scrutinizes the possibility of vaporware characteristics in these announcements by examining any resultant ... response to these announcements, implying a lack of vaporware characteristics and a stable market response. Consequently, in ...
Tópico(s): Legal Language and Interpretation
2023 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... in the Japanese market, could be classified as ‘vaporware’ posing potential antitrust issues. Using a stock event approach, the research scrutinizes the possibility of vaporware characteristics in these announcements by examining any resultant ... response to these announcements, implying a lack of vaporware characteristics and a stable market response. Consequently, in ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
2023 - De Gruyter | Asian Journal of Law and Economics
A proposito del concepto de vaporware se presenta una vision critica del proyecto de la Web semantica senalando tanto los aspectos positivos como aquellos que pueden ser unicamente un nuevo caso de vaporware, es decir, algo que desvia esfuerzos hacia un ...
Tópico(s): Journalism and Media Studies
2008 - | Anuario ThinkEPI
... find that an incumbent prefers to follow a vaporware strategy — i.e., declares plans to pursue a ... of any ex post cost to engaging in vaporware. In an extension, we let the incumbent's ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
2013 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... laxity or if it will be just another vaporware. Paediatric knee anterolateral capsule does not contain a ...
Tópico(s): Tendon Structure and Treatment
2021 - Elsevier BV | Journal of ISAKOS Joint Disorders & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
Tópico(s): Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
1988 - The Catholic University of America Press | Villanova law review