Knowledge management can be enhanced by creating conditions that facilitate knowledge creation, thus the concepts of teamworking, thinking styles and innovation are central to the effective utilization of knowledge. This paper presents the results of a survey of 156 civil servants at Putrajaya, investigating relationships between teamworking and thinking styles with technology diffusion and inn...

This paper focuses on the theory of adoption of cellular phone as an innovation and its diffusion and penetration in the Pakistani society and to confirm Roger’s theory of diffusion of innovation. More specifically, the study aims to test if five categories of adopters and five stages of adoption [as suggested by Roger (1976)] adequately explain the behavior of cellular phone users in Pakistan....

The technological innovation evolution is a selforganization process. There are complex characteristics in technological innovation system. From the perspective of system theory this paper illuminated the self-organization characteristics of technological innovation system and analyzes the self-organization mechanisms of the innovation process and characteristics of openness, dynamic, nonlinear...

Lehoux and colleagues plea for a health systems perspective to evaluate innovations. Since many innovations and their scale-up strategies emerge from processes that are not (centrally) steered, we plea for any assessment with a dynamic, instead of a sequential, approach. We provide further guidance on how to adopt such dynamic approach, in order to better un-derstand an...

This paper analyses IT innovation diffusion within communities joined through electronic networks. Emphasis is laid on qualitative system dynamics, as a methodology of structure and behaviour, in order to understand successful IT innovation. The focal point of interest is the adoption-diffusion continuum, from prior use to post-adoptive behaviour, analysed and modelled by means of “adaptive str...

Information technology (IT) acceptance research has yielded many competing models, each with different sets of acceptance determinants. In this paper, we (1) review user acceptance literature and discuss eight prominent models, (2) empirically compare the eight models and their extensions , (3) formulate a unified model that integrates elements across the eight models, and (4) empirically valid...

Virtual reality did not spring, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus, full-blown from the mind of William Gibson. It has encoded within it a complex history of technological innovations, conceptual developments, and metaphorical linkages that are crucially important in determining how it will develop and what it is taken to signify. This essay explores that history by focusing on certain devel...

Recent technological innovations such as mobile computing have enabled new facility of buying and selling using mobile device. While users welcome this, security risks that can emerge due to this new facility raise concerns. This exploratory research discusses the security risks in mobile computing in terms of direct risks and indirect risk.

Background and purpose New ideas, methods, and technologies spread through cultures through typical patterns described by diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory. Professional cultures, including the physical therapy profession, have distinctive features and traditions that determine the adoption of practice innovation. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) proposes a frame...