This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new … ebusiness technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firms' adoption timing. When … innovation and adoption require large set-up costs, the leader favors quick adoption by the follower. The follower prefers either …

Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a … statistically significant and robust price effect in the adoption of new pharmaceutical technologies; low-prices result in reduced … and slower adoption. Concentrated therapeutic subgroups, reflecting market crowding constitutes a significant barrier to …

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in …

respect to Europe, there is a considerable variability in adoption levels, with Nordic countries like Finland, Sweden, Denmark … and Estonia at the highest level of adoption and countries in Eastern Europe and Greece staying behind at the lowest level …. To better understand these differences, we develop a model of organizational adoption of ICT in hospitals and explore …