1988/12/01 by Alan D. Meyer, James B. Goes · 175 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · Psychology · #Innovation and Knowledge Management #Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting #Environmental Sustainability in Business #Multilevel model #Assimilation (phonology) #Organizational behavior #Knowledge management #Psychology #Business #Computer science #Social psychology
paper · doi:10.5465/256344
published in Academy of Management Journal 31(4), 897-923 (Academy of Management)
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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.