Technological choice and network externalities: A catastrophe model analysis of firm software adoption for competing operating systems

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-57

  Lange, Rense ^a   McDade, Sean ^b   Oliva, Terence A ^c  

^a Illinois Department of Health   (United States)

^b Gallup Inc   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwagons; High technology products; Network externalities; Nonlinear dynamics; Organizational adoption

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE;

EID: 0035031058     PISSN: 0954349X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-349X(00)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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