This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new e-business 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 subject of this study is the theoretical analysis of strategic decisions of firms interacting on electronic business-to-business markets. The methodological approach is threefold. The chapter on technology adoption provides a model to analyze the firms' timing decision to innovate and adopt...