TY - BOOK AU - Evans, David S. AU - Schmalensee, Richard TI - Catalyst code: the strategies behind the World's most dynamic companies SN - 9781422101995 U1 - 658.046 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard Business School Press KW - Strategic alliances (Business) KW - Multi-sided platform businesses N2 - Catalyst Code shows that in the Internet Age, the greatest business successes will be based on creating communities in which buyers and sellers are brought together efficiently, rather than making a new product or providing a new service. In a book that challenges conventional wisdom about pricing, product design, organization, and incentives, the book provides the first step-by-step framework for launching and sustaining these dynamic businesses. It examines the most successful catalysts or all time, as well as many that tried and failed, and provide original insights into the secrets from early history, modern-day business, and the author's groundbreaking research into what really makes these companies tick ER -