A DISPARITY‐BASED DIFFUSION MODEL

Avinoam Meir

doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1979.00382.x

A DISPARITY‐BASED DIFFUSION MODEL

Avinoam Meir

Department of Environmental, Geoinformatics and Urban Planning Sciences

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Abstract

The differential nature of innovation adoption among adoption units causes disparities in adoption over the system as a whole. When disparities disappear, maximum entropy is reached. If an innovation is introduced, entropy declines rapidly from its maximum during the early stages of the adoption process, reaching a minimum (highest disparities) at intermediate stages. Thereafter, it again slowly rises as adoption becomes more general. An analysis of the diffusion of industry among kibbutzim in Israel yields results supportive of the descriptive model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	382-387
Number of pages	6
Journal	Professional Geographer
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-0124.1979.00382.x
State	Published - 1 Jan 1979

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