Beyond the productivity paradox
Communications of the ACM
Technical opinion: Roadblocks to Web technology adoption?
Communications of the ACM
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue on information systems evaluaiton
The adoption and impact of electronic data interchange: a test of internal and external factors
ICIS '97 Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Information systems
Factors influencing the adoption of Internet banking
Journal of the AIS
Maximizing the value of internet-based corporate travel reservation systems
Communications of the ACM
What's Wrong with the Diffusion of Innovation Theory
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG8.1 Fourth Working Conference on Diffusing Software Products and Process Innovations
The Illusory Diffusion of Innovation: An Examination of Assimilation Gaps
Information Systems Research
Research Report: Empirical Test of an EDI Adoption Model
Information Systems Research
Challenges of Adopting Web Services: Experiences from the Financial Industry
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Impacts of Vertical IS Standards: The Case of the US Home Mortgage Industry
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07
Vertical Integration and Information Technology Adoption: A Study of the Insurance Industry
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
Horizontal and Vertical Factors Influencing the Adoption of Web Services
HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 06
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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Vertical standards describe products and services, define data formats and structures, and formalize and encode business processes for specific industries. Vertical standards enable end-to-end computing, provide greater visibility of the organization's supply chain, and enable transactional efficiencies by automating routine tasks, reducing errors, and formally defining all parameters used to describe a product, service, or transaction. Research on standards diffusion has explored either firm-level and institutional variables, without integration of the two areas. This study develops scales for 11 constructs based on concepts culled from diffusion of innovations theory, organizational learning theories of technology adoption, institutional theory and network effects theory. The scales are validated with data collected from the membership of OASIS, a leading international standards-developing organization for electronic commerce technologies. Using data cluster analysis, relationship patterns between the 11 constructs are investigated. Results show that low fit between vertical standards and existing organizational business processes and data formats, low levels of anticipated benefits, and inadequate momentum with critical business partners contribute to slower vertical standards assimilation. However, organizational involvement with influential standards-development organizations, and the right set of technologies, skills, and structures to readily benefit from vertical standards spur their assimilation.