This paper shows how organizational, technical, and environmental factors affected firm decisions to adopt Internet … technologies during the early years of the commercialization of the Internet. Organizations that had made prior investments in … client/server networks had a higher likelihood of Internet adoption, however investments in proprietary or platform …

The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find … evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas …. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is premature. Frontier Internet technologies appear more often at establishments in …