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Organizational assimilation of innovations: a multilevel contextual analysis

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This study examined the assimilation of innovations into organizations, a process unfolding in a series of decisions to evaluate, adopt, and implement new technologies. Assimilation was conceptualized as a nine-step process and measured by tracking 300 potential adoptions through organizations during a six-year period. We advance a model suggesting that organizational assimilation of technological innovations is determined by three classes of antecedents: contextual attributes, innovation attributes, and attributes arising from the interaction of contexts and innovations.

Management science, Usage, Technological innovations, Organizational research, Technology assessment, Diffusion of innovations

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Implementing externally induced innovations: a comparison of rule-bound and autonomous approaches

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This research analyzed how nuclear power plants implemented safety review innovations introduced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after the Three Mile Island accident. The findings suggested that nuclear power plants with relatively poor safety records tended to respond in a rule-bound manner that perpetuated their poor safety performance and that nuclear power plants whose safety records were relatively strong tended to retain their autonomy, a response that reinforced their strong safety performance. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Management, Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health, Nuclear power plants, Pennsylvania, Three Mile Island Nuclear Station

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