The Adoption of Robotics by Government Agencies: Evidence from Crime Labs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Whitford, Andrew B.; Yates, Jeff; Burchfield, Adam; Anastasopoulos, Jason L.; Anderson, Derrick M.
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13301
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 976-988
• 关键词: organizational capacity; information-systems; INNOVATION; technologies; management; state; barriers; LESSONS; media

摘要

Two decades of research have helped show that government agencies can be innovative under certain conditions. We test hypotheses about the adoption and use of robotics as a key emerging leading-edge technology as advanced economies undergo the latest technological revolution. We focus on the case of U.S. crime laboratories as a core component of the evidence assembly process in the U. S. justice system. Using data from the census of crime labs, we show that the adoption of robotics depends on familiar push-and-pull factors: the push of agency professionalism, the pull of agency task environments, and the supporting capability of resources. Together these findings suggest that agencies can be early adopters of robotics as advanced technologies if they have the capacity (and need) to do so.