An Empirical Inquiry into New Subscriber Services Under Interdependent Adoption Processes

Journal of Service Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 180-192

  Mesak, Hani I ^a   Darrat, Ali F ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interdependent adoption processes; new subscriber services; predictive power; two way diffusion system with price

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990366417     PISSN: 10946705     EISSN: 15527379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094670503257047     Document Type: Article

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