Faculty are being asked to adopt, and adapt to, a number of information age innovations in teaching. While some have adopted these technologies enthusiastically, the majority of instructors have been ...

Adoption is a personal state of mind — being innovative, but it’s also a function of your connectedness to other people. Not surprisingly, Ev Rogers (father of diffusion theory) was a communications ...

Now in its fifth edition Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas In this renowned book Everett M Rogers professor and chair of the Department of Communication & ...

How and why individuals adopt innovations has motivated a great deal of research. This article examines individuals' computing adoption processes through the lenses of three adoption theories: ...

When firms create new products or new innovations they want to have an idea towards whom they should market the product. The diffusion of innovation theory looks at the different groups that accept ...

This essay summarizes the state of research on policy diffusion among the American states. Recognizing that this policy diffusion literature largely exhibits a geographic focus rather than the client ...