Article ID: | iaor1994457 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 345 |
End Page Number: | 351 |
Publication Date: | May 1993 |
Journal: | OMEGA |
Authors: | Ronen B., Edeu Y. |
Keywords: | capital investment |
The declining prices of new technology products often leads decision makers to postpone a capital investment and wait for lower prices. This paper makes a distinction between the prices of technology elements and the prices of components and systems. There are many cases where the price reduction over time applies only to some elements of the system, while the total price of the improved system remains almost the same. In these cases, a