A conceptual threshold model of adoption of innovations as a function of innovation's value and actor's characteristics

Journal of Asia-Pacific Business

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 197-217

  Wejnert, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

A principal of value; Actor's characteristics; Adoption of innovations; Innovations diffusion; Threshold model

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INNOVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; THRESHOLD;

EID: 77955817992     PISSN: 10599231     EISSN: 15286940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10599231.2010.500573     Document Type: Article

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