Adoption of e-business: patterns and consequences of network externalities

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The paper analyzes the adoption of various e-business technologies. Strong empirical evidence is found for the existence of increasing returns to adoption due to indirect network externalities between related technologies. If a company is close to the technological frontier, its probability of adoption increases. The empirical analysis is based on more than 5,000 observations from a cross-sectional European enterprise survey conducted in June 2002. A classification and regression tree (CART) is used to illustrate technological complementarities and their effect for the adoption probability of a firm.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Papers ; No. 2004,05

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: Other ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
• Subject: Technology Adoption ; Path Dependence ; Classification Trees

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Schade, Christian ; Köllinger, Philipp
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Center for Applied Statistics and Economics (CASE)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/22179
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