Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the organizational learning framework to the management accounting literature to better understand why management accounting innovations succeed or fail in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical framework integrating diffusion and organization learning theories is developed. Diffusion theory is used to describe the process wher...

Information technology (IT) innovation research examines the organizational and technological factors that determine IT adoption and diffusion, including firm size and scope, technological competency and expected benefits. We extend the literature by focusing on information requirements as a driver of IT innovation adoption and diffusion. Our framework of IT innovation diffusion incorporates th...

This article is the second in a two-part series concerning marketing techniques to enhance nurses' adoption of innovations. Introducing and getting staff to implement new policies and procedures constitute an important part of the WOC nurse's role. The application of Rogers' Diffusion of innovation Theory provides WOC nurses with a framework to introduce innovations into the clinical setting an...

This paper shows that Medical Innovation (Coleman, Katz and Menzel 1966) and several subsequent studies analyzing the diffusion of the drug tetracycline have confounded social contagion with marketing effects. First, we describe the medical community’s understanding of tetracycline and how the drug was marketed at the time the Medical Innovation data were collected. We find little reason to exp...

This work intends to explain step-by-step the special role of standards and their complexity in exercising innovation policy in the European Union. Standards might be an important policy tool for intentional diffusion of market sectors beyond textually available official policy documents/guidelines. This diffusion, having been initiated intentionally, continues in a self-regulated way as the in...

Many recent books and articles stress that one key to long-term organizational health is a systematic process of new product design, development, and introduction. Innovation is accompanied by costs and risks, both of which can be controlled through a well-conceived program of new product development. A key ingredient in such a program should be the use of sound, explicit models for planning an...

The objective of this paper is to understand and study sustainable product development using a systems approach. In the real world, artifacts interact with each other to form a web structure (known as artifact system (AS)), which has its own laws of evolution. Specifically, this paper focuses on development of “Factor X” model to study the diffusion of ecoinnovation strategies. The concept of “...

New products and practices take time to diffuse, a fact that is often attributed to some form of heterogeneity among potential adopters. People may realize different benefits and costs from the innovation, or have different beliefs about its benefits and costs, hear about it at different times, or delay in acting on their information. This paper analyzes the dynamics arising from different sour...

This paper explores the implications of a simple, yet robust model of innovation diffusion for developing insight into the problem of controlling the rate of new product diffusion. Some basic, theoretical results are developed using a simple model. Those results are shown to relate to optimal policies developed from a more complex model of innovation diffusion, developed for the Department of E...

This research explores the extent to which Internet technology firms’ competitive actions shape the diffusion of their respective products in competition with rivals. Combining competitive dynamics perspective with technology diffusion, we extend macro innovation diffusion model by incorporating four micro-level firm actions, including firms’ competitive intensity, action timing, action simplic...