An institutional taxonomy of adoption of innovation in the classic professions
An institutional taxonomy of adoption of innovation in the classic professions
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DOI：
10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102272
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发表时间：
2021-05-16
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12.5
通讯作者：
Vorley, Tim
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作者：
Cordasco, Carlo;Gherhes, Cristian;Vorley, Tim
专业服务中的技术创新研究引起了学者们越来越多的兴趣，他们试图分析组织变革和服务转型的过程。但是，很少注意了解在专业部门采用和传播技术革新的过程。在本文中，我们建议，在专业部门中发挥作用的制度动态的相关性和特殊性需要一个特定的重点，旨在阐明它们如何影响技术创新的采用和扩散。我们特别强调，嵌入经典或受监管职业中的文化认知和规范支柱，可能会显著地将专业人员与有效选择镜片隔离开来，并根据相关技术的性质，成为采用技术创新的驱动因素或障碍。我们提出的假设是，制度机制是采用轨迹创新（即改进现有实践和惯例的技术）的驱动因素，也是范式创新（即实质性改变现有实践和/或从专业人员手中剥夺某些任务的技术）的障碍。最后，我们说明了社会规范在文化认知压力和规范压力的传递机制中所起的作用。
The study of technical innovation in Professional Services has attracted growing interest among scholars, who have sought to analyze the process of organizational change and service transformation. However, very little attention has been devoted to understanding the process of adoption and diffusion of technical innovation in professional sectors. In this paper, we suggest that the relevance and peculiarity of institutional dynamics at play in the professional sectors warrant a specific focus aimed at laying out how they affect adoption and diffusion of technical innovation. In particular, we highlight that cultural-cognitive and normative pillars, embedded in the classic or regulated professions, may significantly insulate professionals from efficient-choice lenses and act as either drivers or barriers of adoption of technical innovations depending on the nature of the technology in question. Our proposed hypothesis is that institutional mechanisms act as drivers for the adoption of trajectorial innovations i.e. technologies that improve existing sets of practices and routines, and as barriers for paradigmatic innovations i.e. technologies that substantively alter existing practices and/or strip away certain tasks from the hands of professionals. Finally, we illustrate the role that social norms play as transmission mechanism of cultural-cognitive and normative pressures.