Dynamic Price Elasticity and the Diffusion of Mainframe Computing

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 163-183

  Tam, Kar Yan ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Information technology adoption; Innovation diffusion; Price elasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030307371     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1996.11518127     Document Type: Article

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