Strategic Response to the Institutional Process on the Adoption and Assimilation of

Institutional theories have been adopted to explain and predict the process of Information Systems (IS) innovation in organisations. However, most institutional-centred frameworks overlook the significance of external economic efficiency and internal organisational capability when organisations consider strategic responses to institutional conformity pressure. Focusing on the diffusion of IS security management as an administrative innovation, this paper develops an integrative framework that illustrates how economic and organisational factors contribute to the organisational decision-making process in the light of institutional influences on the adoption and assimilation of IS security management. The proposed model and hypotheses then plan to be tested using the data collected from two-stage longitudinal study.