Adoption of Innovation
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 28 July 2026
- 03 September 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009606943
- 9781009606899
- 9781009606929
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.74kg, 390 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.563kg, 390 Pages
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Book description
Business, public, and governmental organizations all innovate to enhance operations, improve administration, succeed in competitive markets, and better serve their clients. Organizational innovation is a purposeful, systematic, and managed process that encompasses two core dimensions: generating something new for the market and adopting something new within the organization. Historically, research on innovation has emphasized generation over adoption, invention over imitation, and monetary over nonmonetary outcomes. This book shifts the focus to adoption, arguing that innovation advances through imitation and that adoption enables the diffusion of benefits across organizations. It offers a comprehensive foundation for understanding the theories and research surrounding the drivers, processes, and outcomes of innovation adoption. Key emerging topics include continuous improvement of adoption practices, complementarities among innovations, nonmonetary contributions, abandonment of adopted innovations, post-adoption decisions, and the broader consequences of innovation for individuals and the natural environment. The book also outlines promising directions for future inquiry.
Reviews
‘This book by the highly respected scholar Fariborz Damanpour broadens and deepens our knowledge of organizational innovation adoption. It provides both theoretical and empirical advancements for a better understanding of the adoption of product, service, managerial and social innovations that are critical for organizational resilience and success. It is a must read by serious scholars and reasoned executives.'
Michael A. Hitt - University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University Source: 2026
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