Dynamic perspectives | Theory bases | Core ideas | Researches |
Organizational learning | Learning theory; Absorptive capacity theory | The existence of knowledge barriers allow the organization to delay the adoption of IT innovations until the organization has acquired sufficient skills through continuous learning to implement and operate the technology successfully. | [18] [19] [21] |
Social contagion | Institutional theory; Neo-institutional theory; Learning theory | The prior IT innovation adopters are the “carriers” of contagious influence, the more of their number, the stronger the infectious of innovation. | [24] [25] [26] |
Management fashion | Speech community theory; Institutional theory | Community members participate in the discussion of innovation with their own motives, so that the community is full of speeches about the IT innovation and form a fashion trend. | [3] [12] [14] |
Organizing vision | Speech community theory; Learning theory | Organizing visions go beyond mere fashion statements to synthesize and carry community wisdom that may draw from or support real learning. | [4] [28] |
Computerization movement | Social movement theory; Rhetorical theory | IT innovation diffusion is the product of social movements, the technology behavior structure and the participants ideology can represent by the competitive discourses, promote the development of movements. | [31] [34] |