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Author: | Fichman, R. Kemerer, C. |
Title: | The illusory diffusion of innovation: an examination of assimilation gaps |
Journal: | Information Systems Research
1999 : SEP, VOL. 10:3, p. 255-275 |
Index terms: | INFORMATION SYSTEMS INNOVATION DIFFUSION |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | This study introduces the assimilation gap concept, and develops a general operational measure derived from the difference between the cumulative acquisition and deployment patterns. It describes how two characteristics -- increasing returns to adoption and knowledge barriers impeding adoption -- separately and in combination may serve to predispose a technology to exhibit a pronounced gap. It develops techniques for measuring assimilation gaps, for establishing whether two gaps are significantly different from each other, and for establishing whether a particular gap is absolutely large enough to be of substantive interest. |
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