This research examines the adoption of e-commerce technology (namely, order-execution online trading technology) by six small brokerage firms at various stages in the evaluation and adoption processes. The study is informed by innovation theory and prior research, and seeks to identify the key factors influencing the adoption process. Consistent with innovation theory, the case findings suggest...

Interpersonal networks can be conceptualized not only as actual social structures surrounding individuals but also cognitive stemming from individuals’ perceptions of those relationships. Yet most research on adopts either a structural or perceptual perspective. In this article, I blend these two traditions to examine how and brokerage jointly determine innovation performance. hypothesize that ...

Service brokerage is a complex problem. At the design stage the semantic gap between user, device and system requirements must be bridged, and at the operational stage the conflicting objectives of many parties in the value chain must be reconciled. For example why should a user who wants to watch a film need to understand that due to limited battery power the film can only be shown in low reso...

The current study provides a comprehensive analysis and integration of the literature on the social network correlates of individual innovation. Reviewing the extant literature, we cluster existing network measures into five general properties—size, strength, brokerage, closure, and diversity. Using meta-analysis, we estimate the population effect sizes between these network properties and inno...

In recent years, the advance of the Internet technology and e-commence applications becomes the motivation for the development of scalable server brokerage architectures for the purpose of load sharing. There are many ongoing researches and proposed solutions in solving this problem, but our project focus on providing the satisfactory QoS with the brokerage architecture. Besides the load sharin...

This study investigated knowledge brokerage key actors, in schools that realized sustainable school improvement through professional learning communities (PLCs). To gain insight into what actors brokered and how they knowledge, at five secondary worked sustainably with PLCs participated an in-depth mixed-method study. The findings showed types of were activities, characteristics important for b...