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Social network sites (SNS) are venues for information sharing that provide a variety of communication features capable of stirring emotions, attitudes and beliefs. This paper highlights the role of SNS feedback features and the meanings they communicate to their users, as design elements capable...
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This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level … data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence … the complementarity, firm's resources play an important role in the adoption of technology while advancing from single …
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case of comparative advantage. Differential consumption impacts of observed variables are evident across adoption and non-adoption … palm adoption. …
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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 …
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analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27 countries using panel data from 2004 to 2014 on the adoption, coverage and take … programmes. Results show that a 1% increase in the regulated price to access the old technology increases the adoption and the … service adoption. …
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Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...
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information-based society, yet investment activities and especially the adoption of fibre-based broadband services take place only … important determinants of the adoption of fibre-based broadband services with recent panel data from the European Union member … more negative the impact on adoption, while competitive pressure from mobile networks affects adoption in a non …
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We analyze yield effects of tissue culture (TC) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector, using recent survey data and an endogenous switching regression approach. TC banana plantlets, which are free from pests and diseases, have been introduced in East Africa since the late-1990s....
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Classical innovation adoption models implicitly assume homogenous information flow across farmers, which is often not … realistic. As a result, selection bias in adoption parameters may occur. We focus on tissue culture (TC) banana technology that … was introduced in Kenya more than 10 years ago. Up till now, adoption rates have remained relatively low. We employ the …
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