The Adoption and Diffusion of IT in an Environment of Critical Change.
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Edited by Deborah Bunker, David Wilson and Steve Elliot.
The adoption and diffusion of IT in an environment of critical change reflects the current imperatives for organisations to adopt, develop and implement IT in support of dynamic organisational requirements. This is occurring within an environment of rapid technological change and structural transformation of industry.
The research papers within this volume are divided into 4 streams which reflect: diffusion / innovation theory; models of diffusion /innovation from a software engineering and technical perspective; approaches to diffusion /innovation from a managerial perspective, and inter-organisational systems diffusion / adoption. In addition, keynote and panel speakers from industry and academia who were invited to participate in the conference, generated active discussion on key issues related to the conference theme. Notes from these sessions have also been included in these proceedings.
This conference was very successful in establishing a dialogue between academics and practitioners in such areas as the transforming forces of globalisation, e-business and dynamically developing IT. Issues such as these have critically increased the challenges and complexities of IT adoption and diffusion.
Debora Bunker is at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
David Wilson is at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Steve Elliot is at the University of Sydney, Australia.
IFIP 8.6 in Manchester 2007. Call for papers now available at the conference website
Conference theme:
Although significant progress has been made, aided by academic colloquia
such as IFIP WG8.6, technological innovation continues to be problematic
for many organisations, with the rate of failure of IS/IT projects remaining
stubbornly high.
It is clearly important to understand why some innovation efforts are successful while others fail – why the same technology that “diffuses” in one context meets only resistance and rejection in others!
The aim of this conference is to help move forward our understanding of the organisational dynamics of technology-based innovation by diversifying the research agenda in three general areas: theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and organisational sectors.