Macro-level trends and patterns are commonly used in business, science, finance, engineering to provide insights estimates assist decision-makers. In this research effort, macro-level were explored on the diffusion rates of technological innovations, a component sorely under-studied question technology assessment: When should innovation be abandoned? A quantitative exploratory data analysis (ED...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F16 F43 J24 J31 O31 O33 Keywords: North–South trade Technological knowledge Human capital Wage inequality This paper develops an endogenous growth model with technological knowledge directed towards high-versus low-skilled labour, augmented with North–South international trade of intermediate goods and with human-capital accumulation, to analyse how tra...

This paper reports on an empirical investigation of a particular computerization movement—the diffusion of automated underwriting in the US home mortgage industry—over a twenty-plus year timeframe. Building on and extending seminal work by Kling and Iacono (1988, 1995, 2001), this paper shows the influences of, and interplays among, technological action frames, institutional support, and techno...

Available online 28 August 2014 In today's era of globalization, periodically new products with better value and added features are introduced into themarket. The rapid technological breakthroughs are creating significant risks of obsolescence at the product level. It creates enormous challenges to coordinate between technologymanagement and inventory control policies. Due to the dynamic nature...

Covid-19 transformed mobile payment services (MPS) diffusion pattern globally. Consequently, the need to examine factors contributing rate of MPS in this era is substantiated. Thus, study employs Structural Equation Model (SEM) with social media administered survey data estimate nexus between and technological factors, non-technological environmental factors. Results suggest that although incre...

This study deals with the dynamic sales behavior of successive generations of high-technology products. New technologies diffuse through a population of potential buyers over time. Therefore, diffusion theory models are related to this demand growtfi. Furthermore, successive generations of a technology compete with earlier ones, and that behavior is the subject of models of technological substi...

There is an emerging consensus among macro-economists that differences in technology across countries account for the major differences in per-capita GDP and the wages of workers with similar skills across countries. Accounting for differences in technology levels across countries thus can go a long way towards understanding global inequality. One mechanism by which poorer countries can catch u...

Promising small-scale wood pellet heating systems with sizable market potentials have started to penetrate the residential heating market in Europe and elsewhere. Despite significant technological progress, cost reduction, improved convenience and reliability, and reduced environmental impact, diffusion of such systems will nonetheless take time. Framework and market conditions, and especially ...