Opening the "Black Box" of Network Externalities in Network Adoption

Information Systems Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-82

  Kauffman, Robert J ^a   McAndrews, James ^b   Wang, Yu Ming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Duration models; Economic analysis; Electronic banking; Financial services; Hazard function; IT investment; Network externalities; Network goods; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INVESTMENTS;

DURATION MODELS; ELECTRONIC BANKING; FINANCIAL SERVICE; HAZARD FUNCTION; IT INVESTMENTS; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 0034392973     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.11.1.61.11783     Document Type: Article

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