Innovation is not what innovators do; it is what customers or clients adopt. Put another way,innovation is not brilliant ideas that change minds, but the distribution of useable artifacts thatchange the lives of the people who use them. To this extent e-Science is moving into a critical stageof its evolution. This paper explores the factors influencing the early adoption of e-HTPX w...

Innovation is not what innovators do; it is what customers or clients adopt. Put another way, innovation is not brilliant ideas that change minds, but the distribution of useable artifacts that change the lives of the people who use them. To this extent e-Science is moving into a critical stage of its evolution. This paper explores the factors influencing the early adoption of e-HTPX within dru...

In this paper, we endeavor to make two specific contributions to research on the adoption of innovations. First, we propose a typology of innovations and suggest that theory-driven adoption research should strive to match innovation types with theories that have related explanatory emphases. We propose this overarching framework for innovation adoption research because different innovations hav...

This paper explores the ways in which technological innovation becomes adopted and incorporated into healthcare practice. Drawing upon the notion of 'field of practices', we examine how adoption is subject to spatially and temporally distributed reconfigurations across a multi-level set of practices, ranging from the policy level to the micro-level setting of individual action. The empirical ba...

The innovative nature of e-mentoring along with its ongoing adoption process provided the reasons for conducting an innovation–adoption study on e-mentoring. A sample of 234 mentors that have been employed by Ergani Center, a well respected Greek mentoring organization, were asked to identify with the use of an online questionnaire the factors that influence the adoption of e-mentoring. Gender,...

The adoption and continued use of innovations by societies, organisations and individuals has been a subject of research since before the 1930s. A variety of different theories have been developed to account for the different speeds at which innovations are adopted and the factors that affect the adoption process. This paper reviews theories of the adoption of innovations with particular refere...

In this study, we investigated the adoption decisions of two clinical units of a Hong Kong based teaching and public hospital in choosing and the subsequent diffusion of telemedicine technology. The findings suggest that when making adoption decisions, an organization needs to consider not only the innovation attributes but also the organizational characteristics including needs, structure, mem...

The main objective of the ongoing study is to investigate obstacles and driving forces affecting organization adoption of innovation. In order to that an example of the mobile payments applied in the Swedish retail industry has been used. The main analyzed factors are: adopter characteristics, supplier marketing activity, perceived innovation characteristics, social network, and environmental i...

The current literature suggests that the concept of consumer innovativeness is universally applicable. Innovators are believed to be novelty seekers and risk takers independent of their national identity, and therefore to be attracted to similar characteristics of an innovation across most countries. However, research in intercultural marketing has shown that cultural norms and values have vary...

This paper looks at several “disruptive” technologies. It traces the path they have taken from the early innovation phase to full implementation. The technologies discussed include refrigeration; the automobile and highway system; incandescent lighting; the television and the personal computer. The paper first traces each technology through several steps leading from the early innovation to wid...