Technological Choice and Network Externalities : A Catastrophe Model Analysis of Firm Software Adoption for Competing Operating Systems

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