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Information Technologies (IT) Adoption and Localized Knowledge Diffusion: an Empirical Study
The authors use a specially designed survey on French firms located in Haute-Savoie to provide empirical evidence suggesting that IT adoption is not only influenced by the traditional factors of technology
diffusion (rank, stock-order, epidemic effects and complementary organizational practices) but also by local diffusion of knowledge effects. The paper concludes that what is often explained as involuntary knowledge spillovers in the standard literature are well-regulated knowledge flows between firms, which are managed with deliberate appropriation purposes