Given the length of time that has elapsed since the IJF Special Issue on
Telecommunications Forecasting in 2002 and our reliance on information and …

The authors explore the role of hubs (people with an exceptionally large number of social
ties) in diffusion and adoption. Using data on a large network with multiple adoptions, they …

This article aims to empirically assess the impact of climate policy on technological change—
a core objective of climate policy—by focussing on the changes it causes in the rate and …

Purpose–Based on social conformity and social value perspectives, the authors aim to
empirically examine the critical role of social influences on Twitter user behaviour …

The widening economic disparity between the northern and southern regions has
constrained China's overall and further economic development. We investigate whether …

Blogs, or weblogs, have rapidly grown in recent years. Blogs are easy to use, possess
interactive features and attract widespread use, leading them to be recognised as a …

In recent decades, the world has witnessed, unprecedented in terms of speed and
geographic coverage, diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICT) …

Purpose The main research target of this paper is to capture the network effects using the
case of mobile cellular telephony, identified in European telecommunication markets, and its …

Wiki technology is an emerging trend making way in organizational environments. Although
numerous benefits of using a Wiki in applications of collaborative knowledge creation and …

Adoption research has largely ignored the dynamic impact of network effects on technology
adoption and diffusion. For example, some technologies become more attractive the more …