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Adopting IMS in WiFi technology

Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems and the 1st international symposium on Computer human interaction in mobile technology, 2007
IP Multimedia Subsystem which is standardized by 3GPP is an important step to improve the delivery of innovating IP-Telephony and Multimedia services to the customers in 3G and B3G networks. However, IMS is almost access independent and multiple access technologies such as UMTS, WiFi, WiMax, xDSL and Cable Technology can benefit from IMS services.
Mehdi Mani, Noël Crespi
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Adoption of network technologies in oligopolies

International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1998
Abstract We analyze a two-stage non-cooperative game where the firms choose first to adopt (either simultaneously or sequentially) one of two network technologies, and then compete on the market. The two-stage procedure and the assumption that firms have heterogeneous tastes with respect to the technologies lead to a novel treatment of network ...
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Outsourcing for New Technology Adoption

Information Systems Management, 1997
Leveraging the advantages of outsourcing in the area of new technology adoption depends not only on selecting the right vendor, but on developing a comprehensive strategy that assesses the internal technology environment and meets organizational needs.
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Adoption of Technologies for Virtual Work

2007
A prerequisite for the success of a virtual organization is use of the technology that enables people to communicate and collaborate with one another across time, distance and organizational boundaries. In this chapter, we examine factors that motivate and enable members of the organization to use the ICT that underpins the virtual organization.
Renzi, S., Klobas, J., Jackson, P.
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Technology Adoption or Technology Innovation

2010
Nuclear energy development involves certain degrees of technology transfer, either through ‘private-sector arrangements such as foreign direct investment (FDI), licensing, and joint ventures, or bilateral or multilateral technology agreements among governments.’1 Some technology transfer leads to the adoption, innovation and development of indigenous ...
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Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth [PDF]

, 1994
This paper describes a simple model of technology adoption which combines the two engines of growth emphasized in the recent growth literature: human capital accumulation and technological progress. Our model economy does not create new technologies, it simply adopts those that have been created elsewhere.
Easterly, William, King, Robert G, Levine, Ross, Rebelo, Sérgio   +3 more
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The Five Forces of Technology Adoption

2016
The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and the models derived from TAM, dominate user acceptance of technology theory. This research uses a web-based questionnaire directed towards legal professionals solicited using the social media site LinkedIn. The research included open-ended questions, within a quantitative survey instrument and received 154 ...
Dan McAran, Sharm Manwani
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Physician reimbursement and technology adoption

Journal of Health Economics, 2005
This study analyses the incentives of health care providers to adopt new technologies in a world with ex-post moral hazard. It is shown that in a second best efficient world with respect to insurance coverage, a linear remuneration scheme implements the adoption of second best efficient technologies only in special cases.
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Adoption in the age of reproductive technology

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 2001
The choice of adoption over genetic parenthood was investigated in 105 women retrospectively by questionnaire. Participants were divided into four groups: female/male subfertility; female subfertility; male subfertility; and female/male fertility. Half the sample (59/105) answered the question about the importance of a genetic link. Women who failed to
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Procurement favouritism and technology adoption

European Economic Review, 2002
It is well known that the design of cost minimizing procurement rules for the selection of a contractor among distinct technological groups requires the favouritism of inefficient firms. In this paper, I show that, if technology adoption is non-contractible, these policies will also provide optimal incentives for the inefficient firms to adopt more ...
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