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New technologies emerge, diffuse, and develop in many time-and space-related dimensions, thereby substituting for and/or coexisting with old technologies. This chapter presents a systems model of this process in terms of ordinary physical time, and of an organizational space rather than a physical space. In the organizational space, a new technology diffuses both among different organizations and among different locations or units within the same organization. In principle this could be looked upon as a special kind of spatial diffusion since the organizational space could be endowed with a topology, for instance a metric, that expresses the important characteristics of organizational neighborhoods and distances in terms of communication and decision-making structures.
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Granstrand, O. (1991). Temporal Diffusion and Population Dynamics: A Systems Model. In: Nakićenović, N., Grübler, A. (eds) Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02700-4_10
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