Technological choice and network externalities: a catastrophe model analysis of firm software adoption for competing operating systems
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This paper presents an empirical estimation of a catastrophe model of organizational adoptions of a high technology product when network externalities are present. As such, it integrates work from the economics literature and the catastrophe literature to provide a broader look adoptions issues. Additionally, it is one of the few empirical studies we are aware of that attempt to model organizational adoption of high-technology products ‘for use’ rather than ‘for manufacture’. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification : D23, O33, L15, C19
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