Follow the small? Information-revealing adoption bandwagons when observers expect larger firms to benefit more from adoption

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1167-1185

  Terlaak, Ann ^a   King, Andrew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwagons; Inference; Information cascades; Institutional theory; Mimetic adoption; Vicarious learning

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BANDWAGONS; INFORMATION CASCADES; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; MIMETIC ADOPTIONS; VICARIOUS LEARNING;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 36148969281     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.636     Document Type: Article

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