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Diffusion of innovations
About: Diffusion of innovations is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2139 publications have been published within this topic receiving 191397 citations. The topic is also known as: diffusion of innovation & diffusion of innovations theory.
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TL;DR: The model confirms the importance of attitudes towards potential adoption and the influence of media ownership on perceptions of advantage, observability, and compatibility of the innovation.
Abstract: According to diffusion theory, consumer beliefs or perceptions of innovation attributes, along with external socioeconomic and media exposures, influence the decision to adopt an innovation. To examine the relative influence of beliefs, attitudes, and external variables, the current study synthesizes perspectives from the Technology Adoption Model (TAM) and diffusion theory, and presents an integrated model of consumer adoption. The article reports the results of a survey investigating the measurement model in predicting potential adoption by late adopters of cellular phones. The model confirms the importance of attitudes towards potential adoption. Also significant are the influence of media ownership on perceptions of advantage, observability, and compatibility of the innovation. Media use and change agent contacts significantly influence perceptions of complexity of the innovation. Age, income and occupation were the sociodemographic variables that indirectly influenced adoption intention.
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TL;DR: The most significant advances both in theoretical and empirical work published in leading journals of economics as well as in journals dealing with policies for science and technology can be found in this article, which covers all the major developments including evolutionary theory, strategies of firms, path dependency, diffusion of innovations and paradigm change.
Abstract: Technical innovations and organizational innovations are of major importance for the competitive performance of firms and of nations and for the long term growth of the world economy. This area of economics has been subjected to an explosion of theoretical and empirical research during the last 30 years by economists in the United States and more recently their colleagues in Europe and Japan. This volume focuses attention on the most significant advances both in theoretical and empirical work published in leading journals of economics as well as in journals dealing with policies for science and technology. It covers all the major developments including evolutionary theory, strategies of firms, path dependency, diffusion of innovations and paradigm change.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined factors that enable and impede the adoption of web-based learning and teaching in a large multicampus urban Australian university and identified a series of enabling and impeding factors faced by pioneering technology-adopter teaching academics.
Abstract: Most universities worldwide are becoming distance education providers through adopting web‐based learning and teaching via the introduction of learning management systems that enable them to open their courses to both on‐ and off‐campus students. Whether this is an effective introduction depends on factors that enable and impede the adoption of such systems and their related pedagogical strategies. This study examines such factors related to adopting a learning management system in a large multicampus urban Australian university. The research method used case study approaches and purposively selected the sample consisting of innovative teaching academics from across the university, who used web‐based approaches to teach both on‐ and off‐campus learners. The data were analyzed using a combination of Rogers’ theory of diffusion of innovations and actor‐network theory and revealed a series of enabling and impeding factors faced by pioneering technology‐adopter teaching academics, some of which are technology...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate Rogers' [2005. Diffusion of Innovations. Free Press, New York] technology adoption model (using an "active" definition of social acceptance), which claims that adoption comes about through a decision-making process occurring in stages and can be traced to a number of factors such as relative advantage, complexity and triability.
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