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

Philipp Köllinger; Christian Schade

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.

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Year of publication:	2004
Other Persons:	Koellinger, Philipp (contributor) ; Schade, Christian D. (contributor)
Publisher:	Berlin : CASE
Subject:	Netzwerkökonomik \| Network economics \| Electronic Commerce \| E-commerce \| Innovationsdiffusion \| Innovation diffusion