Information Technology Standards in eResearch: A Conceptual Model of the Primary Adoption Process in Higher Education Organizations
Date Issued
2013-01-21
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Abstract
Current research on IT standards tends to focus on their lifecycle: from the development and selection, to their implementation and use. This work proposed an interdisciplinary perspective to analyze primary adoption process in the eResearch domain. As organizations are the core entities in the innovation process, the analysis of IT standards adoption was applied to eResearch infrastructures within higher education organizations. The core argument was built on the adopter s viewpoint as it provides the most explanatory process about adoption. Two international case studies probed the suitability of a model to identify the determinant role of factors like external and internal networks, top management support and organization structure. This dissertation delivers new insights that contribute to bring certainty about one relevant context of standards adoption.
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IT Standards
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Adoption
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Organizations
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eResearch
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Higher Education Organizations
Institution
Type
Dissertation
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No
Language
English
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