The DOI matches its Crossref record; 5 of the 5 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Technical Change and the Rate of Imitation
Abstract
This paper investigates the factors determining how rapidly the use of a new technique spreads from one firm to another. A simple model is presented to help explain differences among innovations in the rate of imitation. Deterministic and stochastic versions of this model are tested against data showing how rapidly firms in four industries came to use twelve important innovations. The empirical results seem quite consistent with both versions of the model.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change
Griliches, Z. (1957) · Econometrica · doi:10.2307/1905380 · Cited by 3,330
The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians
Coleman, J., Katz, E., & Menzel, H. (1957) · Sociometry · doi:10.2307/2785979 · Cited by 1,452
Luxemburg, R. (2015) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780203361863 · Cited by 1,347
Jewkes, J., Sawers, D., & Stillerman, R. (1969) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-349-00015-9 · Cited by 520
Berkson, J. (1953) · Journal of the American Statistical Association · doi:10.1080/01621459.1953.10483494 · Cited by 441
Cited by
Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries: A Survey
Feder, G., Just, R. E., & Zilberman, D. (1985) · Economic Development and Cultural Change · doi:10.1086/451461 · Cited by 3,482
New Product Diffusion Models in Marketing: A Review and Directions for Research
Mahajan, V., Muller, E., & Bass, F. M. (1991) · Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior · doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02700-4_6 · Cited by 2,088
TESTING A CAUSAL MODEL OF CORPORATE RISK TAKING AND PERFORMANCE.
Bromiley, P. (1991) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.2307/256301 · Cited by 1,453
Modes of Interorganizational Imitation: The Effects of Outcome Salience and Uncertainty
Haunschild, P. R., & Miner, A. S. (1997) · Administrative Science Quarterly · doi:10.2307/2393735 · Cited by 1,248
Abrahamson, E., & Rosenkopf, L. (1993) · The Academy of Management Review · doi:10.2307/258906 · Cited by 1,047
Metadata
- Authors
- Mansfield, E.
- Venue
- Econometrica
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1961-10
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 741
- ISSN
- 0012-9682 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1984697813
- Cited by
- 1,904
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 2.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Technical Change and the Rate of Imitation. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/1911817
- The paper
- Mansfield, E. (1961). Technical Change and the Rate of Imitation. Econometrica. https://doi.org/10.2307/1911817
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
