..., such as intelligent agents and genetic algorithms that are increasingly presumed as common knowledge. As technological innovation rockets forward, both academics and practitioners will benefit from a perusal of the topics within this book’s cover and gain a respectable familiarity with concepts that are often...

...Jonathan P. Allen Information systems (IS) are technology‐based innovations. Argues for the need to develop an approach to IS research based on studies of technological innovation in the social sciences. While research on the adoption and diffusion of innovations has become a popular approach...

... Diffusion Globalization Information systems Technological innovation Railco is a transport undertaking formed by the merger of a federal government agency with two state‐based organizations. The innovation in question was the pilot implementation of an expert system which, while achieving some...