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.

Leadership and Interaction Patterns in the Diffusion of Innovations Among the American States

Abstract: T f HIS PAPER uses the findings from a recently completed study1 of the diffusion of technological innovations in state highway and air pollution control agencies to assess two principal issues in current treatments of the diffusion of innovations among the states: (1) Is "innovativeness" a general timeless phenomenon? Or is it specific to a given time period and function? (2) Is interaction, i.e., adopter-nonadopter contact, a meaningful explanatory variable as presently employed?

Understanding Contingencies Associated with the Early Adoption of Customer-Facing Web Portals

Abstract: Web-based portals extend many convenient and collaborative capabilities to consumers and are being adopted by small firms with ever greater frequency, especially in the context of health care. The early adoption of patient portals by ambulatory-care clinics outpatient health providers presents a unique opportunity to more fully understand the characteristics of supply-side adopters in a context where firms ambulatory-care clinics are extending digital services to consumers patients. Using diffusion of innovations literature and contingency theory as the theoretical base, we expand upon the firm characteristics traditionally considered to be predictors of adoption e.g., firm size, slack resources, competition, capabilities, and management support and examine how demand contingencies, service contingencies, and learning externality contingencies affect patient portal adoption by ambulatory-care clinics in the United States. We find that early adopters often have a structure in place that provides support for innovations e.g., part of integrated delivery systems, as would be predicted by diffusion of innovation theory. We also find, though, that service contingencies associated with continuity of care, learning externality contingencies associated with local influences, and select demand contingencies associated with the local market significantly influence patient portal adoption decisions. Our findings suggest that the adoption and diffusion of patient portals may be affected by more than traditionally considered "dominant" firm characteristics and provide insights into how such customer-facing systems may be affected by contingent factors.