The determinants of the adoption of advanced manufacturing technology: an empirical analysis based on firm-level data for swiss manufacturing

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 377-414

  Arvanitis, Spyros ^a   Hollenstein, Heinz ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMT); Learning from technology use; Size dependency of adoption decisions; Technological complementarities; Technology adoption; rank model of technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141574055     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438590100000015     Document Type: Article

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