The nonspread of innovations: The mediating role of professionals

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ferlie, E; Fitzgerald, L; Wood, M; Hawkins, C
• 署名单位: University of London; Royal Holloway University London; De Montfort University; York University - Canada; University of Warwick
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2005.15993150
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 117-134
• 关键词: health-care; diffusion; communities; management; KNOWLEDGE; networks; view

摘要

Two qualitative studies in the U.K. health care sector trace eight purposefully selected innovations. Complex, contested, and nonlinear innovation careers emerged. Developing the nonlinear perspective on innovation spread further, we theorize that multi-professionalization shapes nonspread. Social and cognitive boundaries between different professions retard spread, as individual professionals operate within unidisciplinary communities of practice. This new theory helps explain barriers to the spread of innovation in multiprofessional organizations in both health care and other settings.