The supply side of innovation diffusion - A UK SME broadband adoption perspective [PDF]
Recent research suggests that the majority of the Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) e-business research focusses primarily on studying innovation diffusion within the SMEs themselves with limited research into the supply-side of innovation ...
Oni, O, Papazafeiropoulou, A
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Cross-cultural influence on diffusion and adoption of innovation: An exploratory case study to investigate the social-cultural barriers [PDF]
The development of science and technology increasing rapidly; in many cases advantageous innovations find obstacles for their establishment and in some others they simply fail. The authors of this paper demonstrate that the reason this may happen, is not
Ali, M, Deligiannaki, A
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The Mechanisms that Drive Disruptive Innovation [PDF]
Disruptive innovation as a theory lacks concrete definition and is often misinterpreted in the literature. Previous studies dealing with the phenomenon largely focus on the process of market disruption and the factors that drive the process.
Mount, Matthew
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Determination of Nurses' Individual Innovativeness Characteristics
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to determine the use of primary health care services in individuals diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases and to investigate the relationship between health status and sociodemographic characteristics and health ...
Ayşegül Sarıoğlu Kemer +1 more
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Diffusion of Innovation According to the Holy Quran, a New Approach to Studying Religious Propagation [PDF]
An important issue in the communication field is the diffusion of a certain new thought, value, fashion, etc. in societies. Innovation (especially in its intellectual and cultural senses) and the manner of its diffusion can be traced and discussed ...
Seyyed Hossein Sharafoddin +1 more
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Diffusions of innovations on deterministic topologies [PDF]
In this paper, we are interested in modeling diffusion of innovations on social networks. We focus on a scenario where innovation emerges at a small number of nodes in the society, and each individual needs certain portion of his neighbors (thresholds) to adopt the innovation before he does so.
Mehmet Ercan Yildiz +3 more
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Diffusion of innovations in Axelrod’s model [PDF]
Axelrod's model for the dissemination of culture contains two key factors required to model the process of diffusion of innovations, namely, social influence (i.e., individuals become more similar when they interact) and homophily (i.e., individuals interact preferentially with similar others).
Paulo F. C. Tilles, José F. Fontanari
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How to bridge the nurse innovation–diffusion gap? An in-depth case study of Create4Care
IntroductionNurses frequently innovate in response to operational failures, regulations, procedures, and/or other workflow barriers that prevent them from delivering high-quality patient care.
Coen Rigtering +2 more
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A Hybrid Mechanism for Innovation Diffusion in Social Networks
Innovation diffusion is the process of adopting novel things, which is deemed as the diffusion of human behaviors. Previous studies mainly posit an unclear distinction with information diffusion.
Jun Zhang +6 more
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Macro Patterns and Trends of U.S. Consumer Technological Innovation Diffusion Rates
Macro-level trends and patterns are commonly used in business, science, finance, and engineering to provide insights and estimates to assist decision-makers. In this research effort, macro-level trends and patterns were explored on the diffusion rates of
Albert Joseph Parvin, Mario G. Beruvides
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