Adoption of Innovation
Organization and Management
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2026
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-009-60689-9 (ISBN)
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 / Votes
'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, 2026More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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ISBN-13
978-1-009-60689-9 (9781009606899)
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Person
Fariborz Damanpour is Professor Emeritus of Management at Rutgers University and studies organizational innovation, design and change. Prior to academia, Fariborz worked as a systems engineer and consultant. His articles have been published in leading academic journals in business, engineering and public management and he has received awards from the Academy of Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Management and Organization Review. His book, Organizational Innovation: Theory, Research, and Direction, was published in 2020.
Content
Preface & Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: innovation, adoption, organization; Part I. Adoption Process, Openness, and Dynamics: 2. Innovation adoption process: stages, drivers, queries; 3. Innovation process openness: involvement of knowledge sources; 4. Dynamics of the adoption of innovations; Part II. Innovation Post-Adoption Process: Discontinuance, Substitution: 5. Discontinuance of adopted innovations; 6. Innovation post-adoption decisions; Part III. Organizational Innovativeness: Drivers and Outcomes: 7. Drivers of innovation: theory and evidence; 8. Performance consequences of innovation: a meta-synthesis; 9. Conclusion: promising themes, emerging topics; References; Index.