Controlling vs. Enabling

Andrei Hagiu
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Andrei Hagiu
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8161-5389
MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Julian Wright
Julian Wright
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-0720
Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570
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Andrei Hagiu

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Andrei Hagiu

[email protected]

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8161-5389

MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

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Julian Wright

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-0720

Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570

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Published Online:25 Apr 2018https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2956

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