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 …

treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own child birth, and any adoption-specific monetary return that is received net of …