Adoption Timing of New Equipment with Another Innovation Anticipated

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 14-25

  Rajagopalan, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption of innovations; Stochastic models; Technological expectations; Technology management

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

STOCHASTIC MODELS; TECHNOLOGICAL EXPECTATIONS; TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0033080159     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.740030     Document Type: Article

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