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For marketing managers in firms whose customers are other firms, and for researchers interested in industrial buying behavior, it would be helpful to understand the process by which firms decide to adopt new products, processes, or practices. This paper develops a framework within which characteristics of the innovating firm, the nature of the innovation, and sources of information can be analyzed as an aid to that understanding.
Frederick E. Webster (Tue,) studied this question.