The paper presents a study of the dynamics of socio-technical change. It describes the evolution of mobile messaging and its social implications, in particular how individuals over time will evolve into communities of common "mobile" characteristics and/or "privacy" concerns. Our conceptual model the Price of Convenience Model, introduced in (NgKruelle, Swatman, Rebne and Hampe 2002) is combine...

Literature has identified the need to study socially pervasive ICT “in context” in order to understand how user acceptability of innovation varies according to different inputs. This paper contributes to the existing body of knowledge on innovation studies and proposes a methodology – a conceptual model for representing dynamic contextual changes in longitudinal studies. As a theory development...

Purpose: Recent work on diffusion of innovation insists on the importance of the processual dimensions of an innovation’s adoption. Context: In the course of a pilot-project aiming to implement three service integration networks for people losing their autonomy, we performed an analysis of the prior conceptions the various actors held of two founding principals: integration and coordination. Th...

Unlike other IT innovations, data mining is not only an IT innovation but also a research methodology. Adoption and use of data mining in an organization could potentially raise unique privacy and ethical issues. Drawing on prior literature in the area of organizational adoption of IT innovation, specifically, the “diffusion of innovation” perspective, and research in the area of privacy and et...

The adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) is one of the most critical areas of innovation for third-party logistics service providers (3PLs). ICT is seen as tool for achieve service differentiation and improving connectivity with other supply chain partner. Nevertheless, many logistics service companies had failed to use ICT to gain competitive advantage as the implementati...

The area of adoption and diffusion has had a strong pro-innovation bias (Brancheau and Wetherbe 1990; Parthasarathy and Bhattacherjee 1998; Ram 1987; Venkatesh and Brown 2001). This bias has resulted in somewhat of a neglect of the area of non-adoption. Existing theories including TAM (Davis 1989) and the innovation diffusion theory (Rogers 1983) provide critical insights into technology usage....

The chapter reviews the generation and adoption of new technologies in the agricultural sector. The first section describes models of induced innovation and experimentation, considers the political economy of public investments in agricultural research, and addresses institutions and public policies for managing innovation activity. The second section reviews the economics of technology adoptio...

OBJECTIVES To understand organisational technology adoption (initiation, adoption decision, implementation) by looking at the different types of innovation knowledge used during this process. DESIGN Qualitative, multisite, comparative case study design. SETTING One primary care and 11 acute care organisations (trusts) across all health regions in England in the context of infection preventi...

related products that form a technology cluster is significantly better than the attributes of an innovation at predicting adoption. The treatment of technology clusters , however, has been ad hoc and study specific: Researchers often make a priori assumptions about the relationships between technologies and measure ownership using lists of functionally related technology, without any systemati...

Adoption of innovation strategies in entrepreneurship is an age old phenomenon, but inclusion of open innovation or collaborative innovation strategies in the business processes is a newly evolved concept. By far, most research reveals that the majority of successful global ventures are adopting open innovation strategies in their business proceedings. However, despite their contribution to ent...