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Innovation determinants and barriers: A tri-perspective analysis of IT appropriation within an early childhood education and care organisation

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posted on 2024-11-14, 13:47 authored by Melinda PlumbMelinda Plumb, Karlheinz Kautz
Empirical studies on information technology (IT) in early childhood education and care organisations are scant, despite an increasing number of these organisations choosing to innovate with IT. This paper presents a framework to understand the appropriation of IT as an innovation within such an organisation. The framework consists of three perspectives on innovation: an individualist, a structuralist and an interactive process perspective. While the first focuses on concepts such as leadership, IT champions, previous IT exposure, the second focuses on organisation size, parents as stakeholders, competitors, government compliance and regulatory requirements. The third perspective views the innovation as a dynamic phenomenon of change, produced by the continuous interaction of the innovation content, its context, and the appropriation process as related in an interactive process. We demonstrate the framework's applicability and determine that the three perspectives supplement each other and together provide a deeper understanding of the IT appropriation process in terms of innovation determinants and barriers.

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Plumb, M. & Kautz, K. (2015). Innovation determinants and barriers: A tri-perspective analysis of IT appropriation within an early childhood education and care organisation. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 19 1-22.

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Australasian Journal of Information Systems

Volume

19

Pagination

1-22

Language

English

RIS ID

104270

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