Sources of differences in the pattern of adoption of organizational and managerial innovations from early to late 1990s, in the UK

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas (1)

1 TU/e - Eindhoven University of Technology [Eindhoven]

This paper explores empirically how the pattern of adoption of an organizational and managerial innovation changes as diffusion occurs. In particular, the paper investigates whether and how differences over time in the patterns of use of organisational innovation are related to changes in the characteristics of the innovation in terms of its functionality and relative complementary with other innovations, as well as to changes in the needs and capabilities of firms. For this purpose, firm level data from the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, in 1990 and 1998, are used.

Mots clés: innovation diffusion; organizational innovation; timing of adoption; evolutionary processes

Domaines: Gestion et management

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas. Sources of differences in the pattern of adoption of organizational and managerial innovations from early to late 1990s, in the UK. Research Policy, 2008, 31 (1), pp.131-148. ⟨10.1016/j.respol.2007.10.002⟩. ⟨hal-01487511⟩