Abstract
The effects of institutional, organizational, and professional factors on the
adoption of medical innovations are widely recognized, but scant empirical
evidence for how they jointly affect adoption behaviors over time is available. This
study aimed to shed new light on the impact of these factors on the timing of
organizations’ decisions to adopt an innovative technology. We collected data on
temporal patterns of diffusion of a robotic surgical system among Italian hospital
organizations. We adopted a dyadic approach to examine the time elapsed between
paired hospitals’ adoption decisions. Negative binomial regression analysis was
then performed to test our research hypotheses. The results indicate that
professional factors, as well as regional governance and technological policies,
significantly predicted the temporal lag in adoption decisions. Our study provides
empirical support for the strong effects of professional and institutional
characteristics on the temporal aspects of medical innovation diffusion.
Lingua originale | English |
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pagine (da-a) | 62-87 |
Numero di pagine | 26 |
Rivista | STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2018 |
Keywords
- Robotic surgery
- Social Network Analysis