Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior

1 Rat Race Dynamics and Crazy Companies: The Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior -- 2 Democratization from a Long-term Perspective -- 3 Innovation and Diffusion in a Single Europe: Institutional Structure and Industrial Prospects for the European Communities -- 4 Multiple Perspectives on Technological Diffusion: Insights and Lessons -- 5 Technogenesis: Origins and Diffusion in a Turbulent Environment -- 6 New Product Diffusion Models in Marketing: A Review and Directions for Research -- 7 The Research on Innovation Diffusion: An Assessment -- 8 Adoption and Diffusion of Technology as a Collective Evolutionary Process -- 9 Diffusion of Innovations Under Conditions of Uncertainty: A Stochastic Approach -- 10 Temporal Diffusion and Population Dynamics: A Systems Model -- 11 Diffusion Through Interfirm Cooperation: A Case Study -- 12 Some General Regularities of Techno-Economic Evolution -- 13 The Adoption of Applications of Information Technology for Process Development: A Regional Case Study -- 14 External Learning Opportunities and the Diffusion of Process Innovations to Small Firms: The Case of Programmable Automation -- 15 Material Substitution: The Role of New Technology -- 16 Morphological Analysis, Diffusion, and Patterns of Technological Evolution: Ferrous Casting in France and the FRG -- 17 Competition and Complementarity in Diffusion: The Case of Octane -- 18 Diffusion: Long-term Patterns and Discontinuities -- 19 Diffusion of Pervasive Systems: A Case of Transport Infrastructures -- 20 Determining the Service Life Cycle of Computers -- 21 Diffusion of Process Technology in Dutch Banking -- 22 The Chain Saw in Swedish Forestry -- 23 The Spatial Spread of the Aids Epidemic in Ohio: Data Analyses via Expanded Regressions -- 24 Branching out into the Universe -- List of Contributors -- Conference Program -- List of Participants.