TY - JOUR
T1 - When innovation fails: An institutional perspective of the (non)adoption of boundary spanning IT innovation
AU - Bunduchi, Raluca
AU - Smart, Alison
AU - Charles, Kathryn
AU - McKee, Lorna
AU - Azuara-Blanco, Augusto
PY - 2015/7
Y1 - 2015/7
N2 - We combine the concepts of legitimacy, institutional (mis)alignments, strategic responses and organizing visions to develop a conceptual framework to analyse the adoption of innovations that span organisational fields. We apply the framework to examine a telehealth innovation connecting a public sector hospital-based eye clinic with private sector optometry practices. We find that while compromise strategies were successful in encouraging adoption within each field, the innovation ultimately failed as fields developed different organising visions which could not be reconciled. The findings suggest that institutional misalignments within and between fields interact to amplify their overall effect on the adoption of hybrid innovations.
AB - We combine the concepts of legitimacy, institutional (mis)alignments, strategic responses and organizing visions to develop a conceptual framework to analyse the adoption of innovations that span organisational fields. We apply the framework to examine a telehealth innovation connecting a public sector hospital-based eye clinic with private sector optometry practices. We find that while compromise strategies were successful in encouraging adoption within each field, the innovation ultimately failed as fields developed different organising visions which could not be reconciled. The findings suggest that institutional misalignments within and between fields interact to amplify their overall effect on the adoption of hybrid innovations.
U2 - 10.1016/j.im.2015.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.im.2015.04.001
M3 - Article
VL - 52
JO - Information and Management
JF - Information and Management
SN - 0378-7206
IS - 5
ER -