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| Authors | H. Hansman, C.H. Mulder, R. Verhoeff | | Title | The adoption of the compact disk player: an event history analysis for the Netherlands |
| Journal | Journal of Cultural Economics |
| Volume | 23 |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 221-232 |
| ISSN | 0885-2545 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences |
| Institute/dept. | FMG: Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) |
| Keywords | Compact Disk Player; Adoption; Netherlands; Innovation |
| Abstract | The compact disk (CD) player was one of the major audio innovations of the 1980s
in the Netherlands. For studies of the temporal and social diffusion pattern of the CD player and
the compact disks, both cultural and economic theories about innovations and music consumption
are available. In this paper, these theories are combined in six working hypotheses concerning
earlier adoption. The empirical analysis includes both time-invariant and time-varying variables and
consumer characteristics. Event history analysis, the technique used in this article, enables one to
incorporate these kinds of variables simultaneously in a dynamic model. Compared with the diffusion
models usually employed by means of longitudinal analysis, event history analysis is a significant
improvement in studying the development of the CD market in the Netherlands. |
| Document type | Article |
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