The diffusion and adoption process of a learning management system (LMS) athigher education institutes faces several obstacles; some of which are unique tocontexts while others are shared experiences. This diffusion case study compares theadoption process of the LMS Blackboard at two...

In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based modelling approach to explore it. The mechanism takes into account the relation between the phenomena that agents attempt to explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a...

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...

To produce output for a firm, coworkers often interact. This paper examines the possibility that as a byproduct of these interactions, there are learning spillovers: coworkers learn general skills from each other that increase future productivity. In the first part of t he paper I show that l...

Clean energy communities (CEC) represent emerging socio-technical systems that offer a suitable alternative to non-sustainable energy production and consumption. Thus, CECs cultivate new knowledge of clean energy use and diffuse it among their members as well as interested publics outside the...