The aim of this paper is to lay the foundations of a social influence based approach for the diffusion of an innovation or a technological standard.

We consider an economic system composed of interacting potential adopters of a technology. We build a model of interindividual influence effects in which part of the links can be negative, in a context of bounded rational choice. The article shows how the sole relationships topology on a network...

La question de l'ideologie est peu etudiee par les economistes, qui preferent croire leur science immunisee contre le biais ideologique. Pourtant, il suffit de revenir auc sources de cette croyance pour redecouvrir l'inexorable dilemme lie a la conception marxienne de l'ideologie. Rien n'oblige...

The aim of this paper is to set the foundation of an approach of the diffusion-adoption problem of an innovation or a technological standard, based on the building of influence matrixes. This means that agents are to be considered as participating in social networks that provide the support and...

The aim of the article is to link the formation of influence networks with the long run coexistence of technologies. In the spirit of Plouraboue et al. (1998), we postulate that potential adopters of a technology are situated in a social network. In our model, initial relations are partly...

Why do innovations need delay to diffuse, or why do they fail? This paper provides a possbile explanation. Considering a population of potential adopters of a technology, we set up a model composed of interacting agents. Interaction is conceived as influence effects and the network of...