This paper studies the effects of the adoption of technological innovations on the efficiency of telecommunications … (TLC) carriers. Firstly, since uncertainty and extra costs are likely to characterize the early phases of adoption, dynamic … model is formulated. The adoption of digital switching equipment is observed and a sample has been gathered for twelve …

A firm's manager must decide whether to adopt an innovation of uncertain profitability or to obtain some information … and then decide to adopt or reject the innovation. Obtaining information can involve either waiting to receive some …

While many of the factors which help explain the rate and scale of innovative technology adoption have been identified … enhance, or conversely impede, widespread adoption. From the literature, a model depicting adoption activity pathways and … adoption processes is developed. The paper concludes with a research agenda for future empirical study. …

I study the relative role of technological and physical obsolescence in the determination of the timing of adoption and … about the timing of adoption non-trivial. If the monopolist cannot perfectly restrict the timing of purchases (using … purchase deadlines, trade-in allowances, etc.) then its optimal pricing policy will inefficiently delay adoption, which in turn …

framework in which product intelligence leads to consumer satisfaction through the innovation attributes of relative advantage …

finding is that the portal has a significant and positive effect towards the adoption of the innovation by an individual. We …In this paper we investigate how two online services (a portal and a digital library) may influence the adoption of an … innovation. It is known from prior surveys that the installation services branch of the Dutch building industry has a relatively …

, capabilities, preferences). We use data on 865 Dutch farms and find that innovation adoption is positively related to labour …This paper addresses the question of which factors influence a farmer in deciding to adopt an innovation. We … diffusion, and innovations that are entirely new to the farmer's sector. We use an ordered probit approach to relate adoption …

presented in this paper was useful for practitioners in forging their analysis in a coherent way. Theories of innovation …