Long Tails vs. Superstars: The Effect of Information Technology on Product Variety and Sales Concentration Patterns
The Internet and related information technologies are transforming the distribution of product sales across products, and these effects are likely to grow in coming years. Both the Long Tail and the Superstar effect are manifestations of these changes, yet researchers lack consistent metrics or mode...
Main Authors: | Brynjolfsson, Erik, Hu, Yu (Jeffrey), Smith, Michael D. |
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Other Authors: | Sloan School of Management |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74641 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8031-6990 |
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