Strategic Adoption of Advanced Communication Systems: Some Empirical Evidence from the Finnish Metal Industry

Heli Koski

Chapter 17 in Innovative Behaviour in Space and Time, 1997, pp 341-359 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The emerging divergencies in the adoption rates of new technologies - or in the diffusion speed of innovations in general - among firms, regions and countries have stimulated a great number of both theoretical and empirical studies (see e.g., Bertuglia et al. 1995; Mansfield 1968; Nijkamp and Reggiani 1995; Stoneman 1983). In the present study, we focus on entrepreneurial adoption behaviour regarding new technology and examine in particular the determinants of firms’ adoption of a new communication technology.

Keywords: Communication Technology; Network Size; Investment Strategy; Business Unit; Network Externality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-60720-2_17

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