... is. However, as they can only observe investment behaviors of their neighbors and therefore only have local information, misdirected information can be concentrated locally. Actors in that part of the network might then get stuck in suboptimal behavior. By allowing diffusion of either binary or continuous...

... (Communications Authority of Kenya, 2018). This conceptualisation proposes five relevant factors for innovation diffusion and adoption including: relative advantage (which compares the innovation with the existing ways of doing things); compatibility and complexity (which relates to product user-friendliness...

... hybridity diffusion framework In the next section, a collective, constructionist, and practice overlay is compared against the two oral histories of leadership in the African Diaspora. The oral histories focus on how leadership work is held and advanced in the African Diaspora. These oral histories...

... process, time-consumption and a complex tasks surrounded by the HRM functionalities. Purpose: This study attempts to investigate the adoption and diffusion of human resource management (HRM) with the phenomenon of AI-based applications. Hence, this study has emphasised the predictors of AI adoption like...

... a development of beliefs in a changing context, which may result in one or more purchase decisions, and the subsequent use of the new product(s) ( Straub, 2009 ). They also identify three sets of characteristics that influence both adoption and diffusion: individual characteristics (personality traits...

... Development Goals), and how changemakers can lead and manage cocreated innovation processes. It considers the initiation of innovation processes and the design and testing of innovative solutions as well as the upscaling and diffusion of new successful products, processes and organizational forms. Finally...

... projects. Finally, the chapter examines how to support, scale and diffuse cocreated experiments. Experimentation prototypes sustainability transitions design thinking grassroots innovation diffusion Introducing Sustainability Experimentation The last chapter made the case for the importance...

...Abstract By the end of this chapter, you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of: The theories of diffusion. Diffusion and social movements. Diffusion and the #MeToo campaign. #MeToo diffusion social movements social media Twitter netnography Introduction Over the last few years...

... access to opportunities in employment processes. Emergence and Diffusion of Diversity Management Following the calls for country-specific studies in order to discover how diversity management understanding varies in different national contexts, this chapter focusses on why there is a need for a context...

...Abstract The diffusion and adoption (D&A) of innovation propels today's technological landscape. Crisis situations, real or perceived, motivate communities of people to take action to adopt and diffuse innovation. The D&A of innovation is an inherently human activity; yet, artificially...

..., the RS chose to diffuse the service without charge. The service was easy to understand and use, benefits showed directly and implementation on site was easy. After testing the solution, most users wanted the service for coming projects, thereby creating a need and a push from the projects for the service...

... the growth of EAA membership but did not directly increase the establishment of charging stations. Social movements technology diffusion electric cars Public Goods organizational diversity A growing number of studies suggest that collective action is essential for the spread of new technologies...

... organizational decision makers also evolves. This dynamic has important implications for how different actors and networks can influence change. We illustrate our argument with a mixed-methods case study on the diffusion of domestic partner benefits across US Fortune 500 companies. Our findings shed light on how...

.... In this chapter, we will discuss research on modeling and forecasting diffusion of virally marketed content in social networks. Important aspects include the content and its presentation, the network topology, and transmission dynamics. Theoretical models, algorithms, and case studies of viral marketing...

...-institutional research agenda is the shift from focusing on diffusion and translation of organisational prototypes presented as specific organisational components to ‘templates’ that signify ‘frames or targets that actors use to compare or benchmark their activities, and to describe how success should...

... nations. How are these processes being implemented? What obstacles had to be overcome in achieving these adoptions? How were these obstacles overcome? Read this volume for research providing useful answers to these questions. Adoption e-services developing nation diffusion innovation Octopus...

...Contemporary researchers have applied additional variables with the existing innovation diffusion theoretical frameworks (see Venkatesh et al., 2003, 2008 ; Zhu & Kraemer, 2005 ; Zhu, Dong, et al., 2006 ; Zhu et al., 2004 ). For example, Venkatesh et al. (2003) included perceived...

...Abstract Purpose Explores recent approaches to international best practices and how they relate to context and innovation in health services. Design/methodology/approach Critical review of existing research on best practices and how they created, diffused, and translate in the international...

... the diffusion process as these activists experienced it. To unpack the dialogical diffusion process, ideally one needs access to ethnographic observational data and in-depth interviews with those who moved through intensive learning inside movement schools. The ethnographic opportunity has past, in this case...

... to States. As Fig. 2b also shows, diffusion theory provides insight into how individual change can aggregate into societal change. ³ Using economic terminology, “spillovers” happen when something affects one individual and then spreads to another. Diffusion theorists articulate such spread...