Innovation is essential to productivity growth. Innovation does not just happen. It will involve decisions made in both private sector and government sectors to invest time, effort and money in exploring new ideas. From a business perspective, the profit motive and competition will be important drivers of innovation. Similarly, flexibility in the workplace and regulatory environment can facilit...

An innovation is defined as the act of changing the established order, or introducing something new (Webster’s Dictionary, 1978). Thus there are two sides to the innovation coin, the diffusion of them, and the production of them. One aspect these two sides of the coin share in common is some measure of risk-taking behavior, but the Michael Workman Florida Institute of Technology, USA Technology...

Environmental management and innovation literature has revealed gaps concerning the influence of business cooperation on environmental innovation and diffusion. Cooperation with external partners in the development of environmental innovation is explored using the Australian Business Longitudinal Database. Complementing this is the exploration of the cooperation of supply chain partners in the ...

Despite considerable research on both adoption and diffusion of IS/IT innovations, there is a lack of coherent understanding of the processes by which innovations diffuse within social systems. This research proposes that the nature of the innovation diffusion process will depend on the characteristics of the innovation, the personal attributes of the individual, the interpersonal relationships...

The Internet is changing the ways of doing business in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of developing countries. The rapid diffusion of the Internet in China brings Chinese SMEs new business opportunities. This paper proposes a framework for studying the adoption of e-commerce in Chinese SMEs. The research model combines organizational innovation adoption literature and the theory ...

Research interest in agile innovation management (AIM) has increased due to its growing popularity. However, little is known about adaptability by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study examines the factors affecting intention adopt AIM SMEs. A conceptual framework developed combining internal external environmental that influence adoption intention. Responses were received from 276 SM...

Most studies on IS innovation have focused on explaining the adoption of IT by individuals or individual organizations. In contrast, only few studies have studied adoption of IS innovations by IS development (ISD) organizations. The current study extends the recent work of Lyytinen and Rose 2003 on the adoption of radical Internet innovations in system development organizations. In this paper w...

In this study we investigate the perceptions of potential adopters in a pre-adoption phase of a new mobile innovation, i.e. the e-newspaper, a newspaper service published on epaper technology, by applying Rogers’ (1995) Innovation-Decision Process and perceived attributes of innovations. We have conducted a study in two stages, in 2005 and 2006, with user evaluations of e-newspaper prototypes a...

The adoption process within organizational settings, which is different from traditional individual adoption, involves both the primary adoption by managers and the secondary adoption by employees. Understanding what determinants influence employees to deeply use information systems (IS) would help managers improve the process of facilitating system implementation. This study explores the deter...