Horses for courses: Relating innovation diffusion concepts to the stages of the diffusion process

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 787-792

  Larsen, Graeme D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor; Cohesion; Diffusion stages; Innovation; Structural equivalence; Structure; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INNOVATION DIFFUSION; STRUCTURAL EQUIVALENCE;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 27644599135     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190500204770     Document Type: Article

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