DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY: COHESION OR STRUCTURAL EQUIVALENCE?
Academy of Management ProceedingsPublished 1 August 1995
Julia Harkola, Arent Greve
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Comparing diffusion of technology by cohesion and structural equivalence shows that cohesion is effective in higher density networks, whereas structural equivalence affects diffusion in low density networks as a mimetic process. A threshold effect seemed to start diffusion in an area where the norm was not to use the technology.
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