The impact of organizational context on innovation adoption in commercial banks

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2000

Abstract

This study examines the linkages between nonstructural factors in an organization's context and dimensions of innovation adoption in organizations. Elements of an organization's context included in this study are size, geographic scope, and product scope; dimensions of innovation are magnitude and speed of adoption and product and process types of innovation. The relationships among these variables are examined by a sampling of empirical data culled from 101 commercial banks in four states: New York; New Jersey; Connecticut; and Massachusetts. We found that: 1) organization size and geographic scope have a stronger association with magnitude than the speed of adoption, while product scope is more strongly linked to the speed of adoption; 2) geographic and product scope influence the propensity to adopt product and process innovations differently; and 3) the pattern of innovation adoption differs among various types of banks. ©2000 IEEE.

Identifier

0007024305 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/17.820722

ISSN

00189391

First Page

14

Last Page

25

Issue

1

Volume

47

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