Purpose Through an evaluation of the Information Technology adoption and diffusion models and the Free and/or Open Source policy of the South African Government, the underlying assumption is that the developmental divide between those with and those without access to technology is purely technical. This paper illustrates that if Free and/or Open Source Software (FOSS) is to be used as a buildin...

Researchers have found that a one-sided focus on technology dominates many e-government projects; ICT has been used mainly as a tool to enhance the efficiency and service delivery of the government. In fact, e-government should achieve public innovation goals, such as redesigning information relationships among stakeholders, enhancing citizen participation in the policymaking process, and reinf...

This paper describes diffusion of electric vehicles and novel social infrastructure from the viewpoint of systems innovation theory considering both human society aspects and elemental technological aspects. Firstly, fundamentals of the systems innovation theory and the platform theory are mentioned. Secondly, discussion on mobility from the viewpoint of the human-society layer and discussion o...

Diffusion of innovation theory overview Diffusion of innovation theory was developed by Everett Rogers in the 1950s from research investigating why particular farmers delayed the decision to use an improved variety of corn, despite being aware of the benefits. Rogers undertook further investigation looking at adoption of innovations across a range of sectors, including education and health, and...

Peer effects in innovation adoption decisions have been extensively studied. However, the underlying mechanisms of peer effects are generally not explicitly accounted for. Gaps in this knowledge could lead to misestimation of peer effects and inefficient interventions. This study examined the role of two mechanisms—sharing experiences (namely, experience effect) and externalities—in the adoptio...

Multiple instances and diffusion mechanisms in biological and economic modeling involve partial differential equations (PDEs). Functional PDEs (with time delays) may be even more adequate to real world problems. In the modeling process, PDEs can also formalize behaviors, such as the logistic growth of populations with migrations, and the adopters’ dynamics of new products in innovation models. ...

Innovation, as a field of study within business, sociology, economics, and engineering, encompasses both the process of innovation within the firm as well as concurrent and subsequent diffusion of new or modified technology from the research and development domain of private and public organizations out to commercial and governmental markets and institutions. There is no standard definition of ...

Whilst many studies have looked at the issue of diffusion of technology in a myriad of settings, few have focused on the impact of disruptive innovation in the field of information systems (IS) and even fewer on the impact of disruptive innovation on technology diffusion in the context of small-tomedium (SME) sized businesses such as holiday parks. Those that have investigated this topic have c...

Recent work has questioned the institutional model of management innovation by highlighting interactions between the field-level actors engaged in diffusing innovations, and implementation of the innovation at organization level. Focussing on the adaptation of management innovations to their context, rather than their creation, we review this work and use it to analyse the global diffusion of R...