Redefining ICT embeddedness in the construction industry: maximizing technology diffusion capabilities to support agility

Technology Transfer Innovation and Successful Diffusion in the Construction Industry

Business agility and diffusion of information technology

European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 116–119. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000610 While agility has recently attracted considerable attention in studies of systems development and management of information technology (IT), there is limited recognition within the information systems discipline of the important impact agility has already had on organizational studies in general. The e...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

ICT in Precision Agriculture – diffusion of technology

Precision Agriculture (PA) is the management of spatial and temporal variability of the fields. This management concept incorporates a range of management as well as ICT tools to assess and treat the variability within the field. The adoption and diffusion of PA is discussed in this chapter. PA has been practiced over the last 15 years mostly in North America and Northern Europe. Despite its pr...

Integration Technologies to Support Organisational Changes in the Construction Industry

The recent Egan report on the UK construction industry has concluded that “integrated construction process” holds the key to further improvement in efficiency and productivity. In the last decade or so, considerable R&D efforts have been devoted to the integration issues in numerous research initiatives. A range of technologies of different levels of maturity have emerged from these studies, in...