Guest editors’ introduction: Methods innovations for the empirical study of technology adoption and diffusion

• Main Authors: KAUFFMAN, Robert John, TECHATASSANASOONTORN, Angsana A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3932; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4934/viewcontent/Guest_editors.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The literature on technology adoption and diffusion is ahighly mature area of Information Systems (IS) research,which requires a deft hand in research to support the creationof new contributions of knowledge. In this specialissue, we focus on the application of various methods,including new ones, to shed light on research questions thathave not been understood fully in prior research. In particular,we will showcase research that involves theapplication of event history analysis and spatial econometrics,as well as count data models to study frequencyrelatedphenomena for changes and development in technologyadoption and diffusion. We also include an articlethat employs game theory, as well as another work thatbegins with a market event study and then utilizes a blendof seemingly unrelated regression, two-stage least squaresand three-stage least squares estimation. Finally, we includea new contribution on product diffusion that uses agentbasedcomputational simulation of different user networkstructures.