Discusses the organizational processes and structural barriers to the diffusion and adoptions of innovations. This book addresses the organizational learning strategies of adoption and diffusion of process innovation approaches. It also presents the theoretical framework of organizational...

Purpose The paper extends the organizational learning framework: Structural-Functional (SF)-single-loop or Conflictual-Radical (CR)-double-loop learning to the management accounting literature. The sociological approach of organizational learning is utilized to understand those contingent...

Researchers in the social sciences have studied the process by which new ideas are adopted (implemented) and how acceptance is generated among those charged with accepting and implementing an innovation. Sociology, in particular, has developed an extensive literature on diffusion analysis which...