Technological Choice and Network Externalities: A Catastrophe Model Analysis of Firm Software Adoption for Competing Operating Systems
29 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2006
Abstract
This paper presents an empirical estimation of 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 broadeer look at adoption issues. Additionally, it is one of the few empirical studies we are aware of that attempts to model organizational adoption of high-technology products for use rather than for manufacture.
Keywords: Nonlinear Dynamics, Network Externalities, Organizational Adoption, High-Technology Products, Bandwagons
JEL Classification: 032, C59, D21
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