Information Technology Assessment and Adoption: A Field Study.

Author List: Huff, Sid L.; Munro, Malcolm C.;
MIS Quarterly, 1985, Volume 9, Issue 4, Page 327-340.
This article presents the results of a field study examining the strategies and mechanisms used by major companies for identifying, assessing, and adopting new information technology. The principle finding is the identification of several generic models which reveal the driving forces for new technology adoption. The article also describes phases in the adoption process, organizational roles, and information gathering mechanisms. This new line of research in MIS parallels and builds upon technology transfer research and marketing studies in the area of organizational buying behavior. The purpose of this work is to assist organizations with the challenge of coping with rapidly changing information technology. This article reports on a study of the organizational processes involved in information technology assessment and adoption (ITAA). In particular, data from a series of field investigations are analyzed and a set of simple process models are proposed. These models constitute generalizations of the ITAA approaches taken by the organizations studied. The models describe the major approaches to ITAA -- both the activities themselves as well as management of the activities -- as observed in the companies studied.
Keywords: information technology adoption; organizational impact.; Technology transfer
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