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- Publisher
- Inderscience Publishers
- Copyright
- Copyright © Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. All rights reserved
- ISSN
- 1746-5370
- eISSN
- 1746-5389
- DOI
- 10.1504/IJTE.2009.031499
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This theoretical paper investigates limits to adoption that new technologies are more likely to find from users of notionally out-of-date technologies. An interpretive framework is posited explaining that older technologies may continue to be used when: features of the old technology have superior complementarity or benefit from technological complexity; their community of users hold negative stereotypes of newer technology or the new technology has not created a strong enough contagion effect; expertise in the existing technology does not help use the new technology or use of the new technology requires high switching costs.
Journal
International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship – Inderscience Publishers
Published: Jan 1, 2009