Information and Profitability Estimates: Modelling the Firm's Decision to Adopt a New Technology

This paper uses a response surface based on catastrophe theory to examine the interaction of information and profitability estimates on the firm's adoption of a new technology or innovation. As such, the paper builds on the conceptual ideas behind McCardle's (1985) work. An illustrative example using simulated data is presented to indicate how one might operationalize the key constructs for the purpose of estimating the model.

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Year of publication:	1991
Authors:	Oliva, Terence A.
Published in:	Management Science. - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS, ISSN 0025-1909. - Vol. 37.1991, 5, p. 607-623
Publisher:	Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS
Subject:	technology \| information \| adoption \| catastrophe theory \| profitability

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Other identifiers:	10.1287/mnsc.37.5.607 [DOI]
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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