Innovation and imitation effects in Metaverse service adoption

Service Business

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-172

  Lee, Sang Gun ^a   Trimi, Silvana ^b   Byun, Won Ki ^a   Kang, Mincheol ^a  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bass model; Imitation; Innovation; iPhone; Metaverse; Service adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958219627     PISSN: 18628516     EISSN: 18628508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11628-011-0108-8     Document Type: Article

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