Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...

The built environment and the way in which it is understood critically affect many business enterprises. Despite its importance, few studies have explicitly investigated the process through which changes to the built environment are introduced into ongoing businesses. To this end the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to attempt to analyze Granger causality in the frequency domain framework between producers' prices measured by wholesale price index (WPI) and consumers' prices measured by consumer price index (CPI) in the context of India. Design/methodology/approach...

This paper introduces a framework for modeling innovation diffusion that includes price and advertising. The adoption of a new product is characterized by two steps: awareness and adoption. Awareness is the stage of being informed about the product search attributes. The process of becoming...

This paper looks into the applicability of diffusion of innovation (DoI) theory and the implementation of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) approach, focusing mainly on the resource extraction sector in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The paper begins with a review of DoI theory and...

The analysis of theoretical bases of innovation is executed. Diffusion of innovation is select one of main forms of bringing in and distribution of innovations. Grounded the use of diffusion innovations as a criterion at the ground of expedience of realization of innovative project on a railway...

In this paper, we modify a two-dimensional variant of a two-state nonlinear voter model and apply it to understand how new ideas, products or behaviors spread throughout the society in time. In particular, we want to find answers to two important questions in the field of diffusion of...