The adoption of radical and incremental innovations: an empirical analysis
Management Science
Information systems innovation among organizations
Management Science
Transforming Health Care through Information: Case Studies
Transforming Health Care through Information: Case Studies
The Illusory Diffusion of Innovation: An Examination of Assimilation Gaps
Information Systems Research
Competitor See, Competitor Do: Incumbent Entry in New Market Niches
Marketing Science
Organizational and Environmental Determinants of Hospital EMR Adoption: A National Study
Journal of Medical Systems
Research Commentary---The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Current Status and the Road Ahead
Information Systems Research
Impact of network effects and diffusion channels on home computer adoption
Decision Support Systems
What drives global ICT adoption? Analysis and research directions
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Journal of Management Information Systems
Understanding Contingencies Associated with the Early Adoption of Customer-Facing Web Portals
Journal of Management Information Systems
A trust model stemmed from the diffusion theory for opinion evaluation
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Information technology and voluntary quality disclosure by hospitals
Decision Support Systems
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We use a social contagion lens to study the dynamic, temporal process of the diffusion of electronic medical records in the population of U.S. hospitals. Social contagion acknowledges the mutual influence among organizations within an institutional field and implicates information transmission through direct contact and observation as the mechanisms underlying influence transfer. We propose hypotheses predicting a hospital's likelihood of adopting electronic medical records as a function of its susceptibility to the influence of prior adopters, the infectiousness or potency of influence exerted by adopting hospitals, and its social and spatial proximity to prior adopters. Results obtained by fitting a heterogeneous diffusion model to data from a sample drawn from an annual survey, spanning 1975 to 2005, of almost 4,000 U.S. hospitals suggest that diffusion can be accelerated if specific attention is given to increasing social contagion effects. In particular, with respect to susceptibility to influence, greater hospital size and age are positively related to the likelihood of adoption for nonadopters, whereas younger hospitals are associated with greater infectiousness for adopters. A hospital's “celebrity” status also contributes to its infectiousness. We further find strong effects for social proximity and significant regional effects for spatial proximity and hospital size, suggesting that geographical covariates should be included in diffusion studies. Results also reinforce the importance of theorizing about and including interactions in examinations of social contagion.