Theories of innovation emphasize that firms’ existing capabilities strongly influence which firms adopt new technology most extensively, but struggle to explain why weaker incumbents sometimes keep up with their stronger competitors when competence-enhancing innovations enter their industry. This paper studies collaborative outsourcing as a strategy for weaker incumbents to keep pace. The paper...

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) innovations have gained considerable attention in the last several years and attracted the attention of organizations across different industries. RFID technologies have found applications in diverse areas such as package tracking, inventory management, baggage handling, school attendance, and logistics. Prior literature on RFID innovations offers insights ...

Social identities are among the key factors driving behavior in complex societies. Signals of social identity are known to influence individual behaviors in the adoption of innovations. Yet the population-level consequences of identity signaling on the diffusion of innovations are largely unknown. Here we use both analytical and agent-based modeling to consider the spread of a beneficial innova...

Part 1: Studies on Diffusion and Adoption 1 The Diffusion of Research on the Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Michael D. Williams, and Banita Lal 3 2 Citation Patterns in MIS: An Analysis of Exemplar Articles Tor J. Larsen and Linda Levine 23 3 Understanding the Diffusion and Adoption of Telecommunication Innovations: What We Know and What We Don’t Know Heidi ...

This study aimed to discover the adoption of innovations online tutoring apps on high school students. used diffusion theory innovation with an innovation-decision process model approach indicators knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation. The research was conducted in Pekanbaru City, Riau Province, Indonesia. Data collection a survey method 120 respondents from state p...

This note analyses the adoption and diffusion of innovations in a horizontally differentiated Cournot duopoly in which firms have to choose the dates for adopting a cost-reducing new technology like in Reinganum (1981a). We prove that product differentiation crucially matters in the diffusion pattern of the innovation and in the comparison between the adoption timing in the decentralized econom...

Studies of e-business adoption have generally been restricted to understanding organizational factors. Institutional factors provide an alternate explanation of the diffusion of e-business across organizations. We test the influence of coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures on first-time adoption of B2B and B2C innovations by organizations. We further propose that an organization’s response...

Consumers are increasingly animal welfare-conscious and critical of indoor caged housing systems such as those used in rabbit farming, Europe has committed to legislate a ban on farming. Research evidenced several technical economic drivers system change or lock-in the livestock sector. Here we study determinants, motivations and/or resistance adoption pro-welfare practices among French farmers...