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The analysis has shown some important properties of systems subject to network effects that make standardization problems challenging for traditionally established scholarly systems, especially neo-classical analysis as one of the quite few fully axiomatized theoretical systems in economics. Beneath the externality property, there are other shortcomings of the neo-classical framework when information and communication systems (and their contents like for example information products) are the basic unit of analysis. Hence, after identifying these drawbacks, a requirements catalogue for an interdisciplinary theory of network effects and a possible methodological approach is proposed.
“An economic theory of norms and standards (...) is still lacking” [Knieps/Müller/Weizsäcker 1982, 213]
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Weitzel, T. (2004). Theoretical implications: towards an interdisciplinary network theory. In: Economics of Standards in Information Networks. Information Age Economy. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2664-7_6
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