Technology Adoption and Firm Profitability
用一个新过程技术扩散模型预测技术采纳与企业盈利能力的关系，基于1983-6年英国工程行业企业数据检验，发现非采纳者利润因他人采纳而下降，采纳者的毛利润增益与企业特征、行业特征、其他用户数量及获取成本相关。
In this paper an encompassing model of the diffusion of new process technologies is used to predict the relationship between firm profitability and the adoption of technology. The model is tested on data relating to a sample of firms in the UK engineering industry over the period 1983-6. The results indicate that non-adopters experience reduced profits as other firms adopt new technologies and that the gross profit gains to adopters of new technology are related to firm and industry characteristics, the number of other users of new technologies and the cost of acquisition.