Application of Information systems has significantly contributed to the growth of various sectors both in developed as well as developing countries. This significant contribution can be attributed to the careful adoption of IT innovation. There exist varied views of the very same technology by different users based on the individual’s sense-making, resulting in diversified notions regarding the...

Over the past two decades, much research effort has been directed to identifying salient perceptions of innovation characteristics that determine user acceptance of technology, but largely ignored the potential effect of individual adopter differences. According to innovation diffusion theory, some individuals are more likely to adopt an innovation than others because of their differences in in...

With emphasizing the process of innovation, this paper classifies government intervention focused on innovation adoption into three dimensionalities: information support, financial support and personnel support. It also refines technological cognition into two aspects: perceived benefits including functional benefits and social benefits, and perceived costs including financial cost and risk. Th...

This study presents an exploratory approach to identify the main factors of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) adoption and diffusion within commercial organisations. Utilising an inductive investigative approach via the use of Grounded Theory methodology, relevant adoption factors were identified and their resulting influence during various stages of the innovation diffusion process were prop...

This study presents an exploratory approach to identify the main factors of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) adoption and diffusion within commercial organisations. Utilising an inductive investigative approach via the use of Grounded Theory methodology, relevant adoption factors were identified and their resulting influence during various stages of the innovation diffusion process were prop...

We have studied the pre-adoption phase of the e-newspaper, i.e. a newspaper published with epaper technology. The research question of this article is: In what way can a user centered innovation process contribute to identifying key values in mobile innovations? The aim of this article is threefold: firstly, to identify key values for the e-newspaper, secondly, to examine the intention to adopt...

The present research confirms that during the most recent (2008-) economic crisis, ICT indicators showed deviations from the classical diffusion of innovation trends with regard to individual ICT components. The reason for the deviations should be sought in economic, but also social, cultural, political and other influence factors. During the latest crisis (2008-2011), we thus observed the foll...

Technology adoption theories assume that users’ acceptance of an innovative technology is on a voluntary basis. However, sometimes users are force to accept an innovation. In this case users have to learn what it is useful for and how to use it. This learning process will enable users to transit from zero knowledge about the innovation to making the best use of it. So far the effects of user le...

Theories of innovation emphasize that firms’ existing capabilities strongly influence which firms adopt new technology most extensively, but struggle to explain why weaker incumbents sometimes keep up with their stronger competitors when competence-enhancing innovations enter their industry. This paper studies collaborative outsourcing as a strategy for weaker incumbents to keep pace. The paper...

Open innovation is a paradigm for knowledge sourcing among organizations. Extant literature argues that organizations should take advantage of both external and internal ideas for innovation in organizations. For open innovation to be effective, however, organizations must be able to source knowledge to partners as well absorb the ideas and knowledge from external parties. It is critical to sha...