ORGANIZATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF INNOVATIONS: A MULTILEVEL CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS.

1 December 1988

journal article
Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal

Vol. 31 (4) , 897-923
https://doi.org/10.2307/256344

Abstract

This study examined the assimilation of innovations into organizations, a process unfolding in a series of decisions to evaluate, adopt, and implement new technologies. Assimilation was conceptualized as a nine-step process and measured by tracking 300 potential adoptions through organizations during a six-year period. We advance a model suggesting that organizational assimilation of technological innovations is determined by three classes of antecedents: contextual attributes, innovation attributes, and attributes arising from the interaction of contexts and innovations

Keywords

CONTEXTUAL
ORGANIZATIONAL ASSIMILATION
TECHNOLOGICAL
ANTECEDENTS
STEP
UNFOLDING
ASSIMILATION OF INNOVATIONS
MODEL

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