Boundaries represent separation and the end of one thing beginning another. The diffusion innovations represents a transmission information, personal relationships, creativity similarities across boundaries. While policy management innovation studies began as an American state field, over last 20 years have expanded to include new frameworks for Chinese, Korean other countries’ studies. Using r...

Local information and communication resource centers, usually called telecenters, are springing up in developing countries with the objective of bringing the beneats of new communication technologies to the rural poor. Rural telecenters are calling the attention of academic and nonacademic researchers, but there is no theoretical framework to help understand the process of diffusion and adoptio...

OBJECTIVES The diffusion of innovations theory suggests that early users of innovations influence others. This study was undertaken to apply the diffusion of innovations theory to the prescribing of celecoxib and to determine if prescriber and patient characteristics differed amongst early use of celecoxib for acute pain versus chronic musculoskeletal conditions. METHODS Using Manitobaâs popu...

There are various studies on the eco-innovation in the literature, but there is a scarcity of studies on the adoption and diffusion within manufacturing small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Drivers to adopt eco-innovations by manufacturing SMEs are required to be understood properly and be analyzed regarding the relationships among them. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify the ...

Regarding the tremendous changes effected in the domain of modern technologies and information technologies, firms are required to adopt management accounting innovations to continue their operations. While the extant literature has focused on developed countries, the present project is set to determine the extent to which management accounting innovations are applied in firms in the context of...

Innovation diffusion represents a central topic both for researchers and for managers and policy makers. Traditionally, it has been examined using the successful Bass models (BM, GBM), based on an aggregate differential approach, which assures flexibility and reliable forecasts. More recently, the rising interest towards adoptions at the individual level has suggested the use of agent based mod...

In “The Future of WAC” (1996), Barbara E. Walvoord suggests framing the history and future of the writing-across-the-curriculum movement according to social movement theory (58), explaining that WAC qualifies as a movement because of its “change agenda and its collective nature—faculty talking to one another, moving to effect reform” (58). Consequently, she proposes that her evaluation of WAC’s...

Innovation in open ecosystems such as open source software is characterized by generative diffusion, the property of such ecosystems to evolve and change over time through the actions of uncoordinated participants. In this research, we contend that existing models of diffusion are not adequate to capture the multi-faceted nature of generative diffusion. To address this challenge, we use concept...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages have been widely adopted and it is becoming clear that this is driven by multiple rationales that may be simultaneously at odds and complimentary. In this paper, we aim to develop a greater understanding of these rationales by taking ERP packages to be innovations and analysing their adoption with reference to the theory of diffusion of innovations. I...