The Initiation, Adoption, and Implementation of Telecommunications Technologies in U.S. Organizations.

Author List: Grover, Varun; Goslar, Martin D.;
Journal of Management Information Systems, 1993, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 141-163.
Despite the increasing pervasiveness of telecommunications technologies, very few studies have holistically attempted to examine their use in organizational contexts. This study approaches the use of these technologies from an innovation perspective. Literature on innovation is synthesized into a testable model and the results of a senior IS executive survey of 154 organizations is reported. Factors that enable initiation, adoption, and implementation of a set of 15 distinct telecommunications technologies are examined. Two factors in particular, environmental uncertainty and decentralization of decision making, show significant relationships with the usage of these technologies. The results provide useful insights into the usage of individual technologies and the contextual factors that enable diffusion of this important set of technologies in U.S. organizations.
Keywords: adoption of telecommunications; implementation of telecommunications; organizational innovation; telecommunications technologies
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#108 0.215 model research data results study using theoretical influence findings theory support implications test collected tested based empirical empirically context paper
#160 0.143 mobile telecommunications devices wireless application computing physical voice phones purchases ubiquitous applications conceptualization secure pervasive differential usability increasing local location
#49 0.136 adoption diffusion technology adopters innovation adopt process information potential innovations influence new characteristics early adopting set compatibility time initial current
#179 0.134 technologies technology new findings efficiency deployed common implications engineers conversion change transformational opportunity deployment make making improve powerful choosing enhance
#153 0.125 usage use self-efficacy social factors individual findings influence organizations beliefs individuals support anxiety technology workplace key outcome behavior contextual longitudinal
#185 0.113 change organizational implementation case study changes management organizations technology organization analysis successful success equilibrium radical efforts initiatives managing resistance individuals
#165 0.080 uncertainty contingency integration environmental theory data fit key using model flexibility perspective environment perspectives high conditions processing examine issue uncertain