Organizational assimilation of technology in a sunrise industry: a story of successes and failures

Description

This study analyzes the contextual factors influencing technology assimilation in an environment characterized by macroeconomic changes, rapid technological innovation, evolving industry practices, and shifting organizational contexts. Stones’ strong structuration theory (SST), a refinement of Giddens’ structuration theory, is employed as the theoretical lens to examine the technology assimilation process. SST is used to analyze structuration processes at the micro level and their impact on structures at the meso- and macro-levels. In addition, actor–network theory (ANT) is applied to examine the role of heterogeneous actors in shaping and transforming these structures as the actor network adapts to technological innovations and changing contexts.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-38862-0_34

ISBN

978-3642388613||978-3642388620

Publisher

Springer New York LLC

Keywords

Actor Network Theory, Structuration Theory, Technology Assimilation, Technology Diffusion

Conference

IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2013, 27-29 June, 2013, Bangalore, India

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