of human mind. In other words, knowledge on production, i.e., technology or productive knowledge provides the premises … and gives occasion to a dynamic and uninterrupted growth process, but technology itself is the product of mental labor …

mechanism of technological development. Hence, the probability to adopt any e- business technology is hypothesized to be an … technology in the future. The existence of the endogenous acceleration mechanism has important implications for the management of … 2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well …

This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … generally insignificant. Utility gains and losses from marriage are significantly negative if one leaves out financial … of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …

A long-term relationship such as marriage will not operate efficiently without sanctions for misconduct, of which …

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …

environmentally inferior technology, or is coordination from outside the system necessary in the form of public intervention? More …

technology standardization, avoiding the habitual determinism of conventional models of technology diffusion and lock-in. Finally … attributes of the technology standardization processes in them. To achieve these goals we have developed an agent based model …The study described here aims to make a threefold contribution to the analysis of technology diffusion. First of all …

, to choose how to allocate technological inputs. A technology choices model is developed, where scarce scientific … resources are alternatively allocated to basic science activities and to applied technology uses. We find that saddle path … objective function, that is, for a second-order Taylor series approximation of a felicity function regarding technology …