Understanding innovation adoption : effects of orientation, pressure and control on adoption

Unsworth, K.L.; Sawang, S.; Murray, J.; Norman, P.; Sorbello, T.M.

Abstract

We develop and test a theoretically-based integrative framework of key proximal factors (orientation, pressure, and control) that helps to explain the effects of more general factors (the organisation's strategy, structure, and environment) on intentions to adopt an innovation one year later. Senior managers from 134 organizations were surveyed and confirmatory factor analyses showed that these hypothesized core factors provided a good fit to the data, indicating that our framework can provide a theoretical base to the previous, largely atheoretical, literature. Moreover, in a subgroup of 63 organizations, control mediated the effects of organizational strategy and centralisation on organizational innovation adoption intentions one year later. We suggest this model of core factors enables researchers to understand why certain variables are important to organisational innovation adoption and promotes identification of fertile research areas around orientation, pressure and control, and it enables managers to focus on the most proximal triggers for increasing innovation adoption.

Citation

Unsworth, K., Sawang, S., Murray, J., Norman, P., & Sorbello, T. (2012). Understanding innovation adoption : effects of orientation, pressure and control on adoption. International Journal of Innovation Management, 16(01), Article 1250004. https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919611003593

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Apr 6, 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Deposit Date: Dec 3, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 4, 2024
• Journal: International Journal of Innovation Management
• Print ISSN: 1363-9196
• Electronic ISSN: 1757-5877
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 01
• Article Number: 1250004
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/s1363919611003593
• Keywords: Innovation adoption, orientation, external pressure, perceived control