Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior

1 Rat Race Dynamics and Crazy Companies: The Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior.- 2 Democratization from a Long-term Perspective.- 3 Innovation and Diffusion in a Single Europe: Institutional Structure and Industrial Prospects for the European Communities.- 4 Multiple Perspectives on Technological Diffusion: Insights and Lessons.- 5 Technogenesis: Origins and Diffusion in a Turbulent Environment.- 6 New Product Diffusion Models in Marketing: A Review and Directions for Research.- 7 The Research on Innovation Diffusion: An Assessment.- 8 Adoption and Diffusion of Technology as a Collective Evolutionary Process.- 9 Diffusion of Innovations Under Conditions of Uncertainty: A Stochastic Approach.- 10 Temporal Diffusion and Population Dynamics: A Systems Model.- 11 Diffusion Through Interfirm Cooperation: A Case Study.- 12 Some General Regularities of Techno-Economic Evolution.- 13 The Adoption of Applications of Information Technology for Process Development: A Regional Case Study.- 14 External Learning Opportunities and the Diffusion of Process Innovations to Small Firms: The Case of Programmable Automation.- 15 Material Substitution: The Role of New Technology.- 16 Morphological Analysis, Diffusion, and Patterns of Technological Evolution: Ferrous Casting in France and the FRG.- 17 Competition and Complementarity in Diffusion: The Case of Octane.- 18 Diffusion: Long-term Patterns and Discontinuities.- 19 Diffusion of Pervasive Systems: A Case of Transport Infrastructures.- 20 Determining the Service Life Cycle of Computers.- 21 Diffusion of Process Technology in Dutch Banking.- 22 The Chain Saw in Swedish Forestry.- 23 The Spatial Spread of the Aids Epidemic in Ohio: Data Analyses via Expanded Regressions.- 24 Branching out into the Universe.- List of Contributors.- Conference Program.- List of Participants.