This paper studies the adoption times of various e-business technologies in a large sample of firms from 10 different industry sectors and 25 European countries between 1994 and 2002. The results show that the probability of adoption increases with the number of previously adopted e-business...

Die Investitionsentscheidungen von Unternehmen für E-Business-Technologien werden von verschiedenen Faktoren beeinflusst. Als wichtigster Faktor für die Investition in eine zusätzliche E-Business-Technologie stellt sich die Zahl der im Unternehmen bereits genutzten E-Business-Technologien...

This article analyzes the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation, and performance at the firm level. Data for the empirical investigation originates from a sample of 7,302 European enterprises. The empirical results show that Internet-based...

This paper studies the diffusion of multiple, related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional, related technologies....