TY - GEN
T1 - An analysis of existing publications to explore the use of the diffusion of innovations theory and innovation attributes
AU - Kapoor, Kawaljeet Kaur
AU - Williams, Michael D.
AU - Dwivedi, Yogesh K.
AU - Lal, Banita
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 'Diffusion of Innovations' is a theory that explicates the process of introducing new ideas (i.e. technological innovation) into a system via varied channels of communication. The purpose of this paper is to undertake a systematic review of the available literature to examine the current advances in the Diffusion Of Innovations (DOI) theory. The focus remains more inclined towards the diffusion attributes. ISI Web of Knowledge ® and Google Scholar were the two rigorously used search engines for our study. These engines fectched a total of 2073 published records that cited Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation theory. Some of these publications were found to be available for download. Upon conducting a further search, 1145 published records were found to have used the 28 innovation attributes that were identified in a previous article on this subject. Statistical filtering then showed complexity to be the highly used attribute with 834 records having cited this attribute. Further review showed that all the five attributes adopted from Rogers' work of study, represented the most frequently employed attributes for examining the rate of innovation adoption.
AB - 'Diffusion of Innovations' is a theory that explicates the process of introducing new ideas (i.e. technological innovation) into a system via varied channels of communication. The purpose of this paper is to undertake a systematic review of the available literature to examine the current advances in the Diffusion Of Innovations (DOI) theory. The focus remains more inclined towards the diffusion attributes. ISI Web of Knowledge ® and Google Scholar were the two rigorously used search engines for our study. These engines fectched a total of 2073 published records that cited Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation theory. Some of these publications were found to be available for download. Upon conducting a further search, 1145 published records were found to have used the 28 innovation attributes that were identified in a previous article on this subject. Statistical filtering then showed complexity to be the highly used attribute with 834 records having cited this attribute. Further review showed that all the five attributes adopted from Rogers' work of study, represented the most frequently employed attributes for examining the rate of innovation adoption.
KW - Adoption
KW - Attributes
KW - Diffusion
KW - Innovation and Complexity
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84863418527
U2 - 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141249
DO - 10.1109/WICT.2011.6141249
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863418527
SN - 9781467301251
T3 - Proceedings of the 2011 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2011
SP - 229
EP - 234
BT - Proceedings of the 2011 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2011
T2 - 2011 World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies, WICT 2011
Y2 - 11 December 2011 through 14 December 2011
ER -