CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN THE ADOPTION OF PEER-TO-PEER TECHNOLOGIES: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF INFORMATION CASCADES AND NETWORK EXTERNALITIES

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1801-1810

  Song, Jaeki ^a   Walden, Eric A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer behavior; Information cascade; network externality; peer to peer technology; technology adoption

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONSUMER DEMANDS; EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION; INFORMATION CASCADES; INFORMATION NETWORKS; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; NETWORK INFORMATION; PEER-TO-PEER TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; THEORETICAL MODELING;

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85082598379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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