Attributes of innovation and the implementation of managerial tools: An activity based management technique

Authors

D. Askarany
Malcolm Smith, Edith Cowan University
H. Yazdifar

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

School

School of Accounting, Finance and Economics

RAS ID

4299

Comments

Askarany, D., Smith, M., & Yazdifar, H. (2007). Attributes of innovation and the implementation of managerial tools: An activity-based management technique. International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 1(1), 98-114. Available here

Abstract

Adopting Rogers' diffusion model and the modified diffusion model presented by Askarany, this paper examines the level of association between perceived attribution of innovations and the diffusion of one managerial tool: Activity-Based Management (ABM) in organisations. Addressing the five main categories of attributes of innovations: 'relative advantage', 'compatibility', 'complexity', 'trialability' and 'observability', the findings suggest that the diffusion of ABM is significantly associated with the specified attributes of such innovations. The findings shed light on some factors influencing the diffusion of recently developed techniques and innovations in organisations.

DOI

10.1504/IJBSR.2007.014776